alcohol

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  6/14/2023
  

  The Daiquiri is the History of American Empire in a Cocktail

  by Ian Seavey

  "The daiquiri rose to prominence as a direct result of the American imperial project in the Caribbean during the burgeoning classic cocktail age from 1860 to 1920."

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  9/6/2022
  

  Ken Burns Got "Prohibition" Wrong

  by Mark Lawrence Schrad

  Burns largely accepts an individualistic and libertarian narrative of prohibition as a misbegotten campaign of moral scolds, missing the reformist, egalitarian, and humane demands of the movement and the exploitative nature of the "liquor traffic" it sought to disrupt. 

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• SOURCE: Going Medieval
  8/18/2022
  

  On Beer, or, Why Chicks Rock

  by Eleanor Janega

  The history of brewing in medieval Europe reflects on the present in interesting ways from the inside of the pub. 

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• SOURCE: Reason
  4/18/2022
  

  The History of Saloons Helps Understand the Social Harm of the Pandemic

  "In the century and a half after the founding, saloons continued to be a key social institution, places of business, leisure, and community for many men—until Prohibition wiped them out, destroying in one fell stroke the cultural and economic infrastructure they had long provided."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/31/2022
  

  Outrage over Boris Johnson's Parties is Part of a Long Tradition

  Since aristocratic 1920s Brits adopted the cocktail culture of Prohibition-era America, the idea of a hard-partying elite living by their own rules has been a source of popular outrage, with the Prime Minister only the latest case. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/1/2022
  

  The Truth About Prohibition

  by Mark Lawrence Schrad

  American historians have often identified Prohibition with a coalition of social reformers, nativists and religious fundamentalists. Looking at the international temperance and prohibition movement tells a different story of a fight against exploitation of workers and minority groups through addiction.

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• 10/24/2021
  

  How the Great War Helped the Drive for Prohibition

  by Kathryn Smith

  Hatred of Germans (and their beer) was essential to dry propaganda.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/14/2021
  

  Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine

  by Dillon Carroll

  Today's concern for "deaths of despair" among white Americans isn't unprecedented; a wave of alcoholism and temperance advocacy after the Civil War highlighted the relationship between social unsettlement, substance abuse and social reformism.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/17/2021
  

  The Hard Seltzer Trend Echoes the 19th Century Craze for Lager

  "Lagers were introduced by a wave of German immigrants pouring in from Europe. To uninitiated Americans, lager was simply weird. But for Germans-turned-German-Americans, the beer was inseparable from the culture of its consumption."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/16/2021
  

  America Has a Drinking Problem

  The shifting social setting of American alcohol consumption, as much as its volume, is cause for concern. 

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• 7/11/2021
  

  Cocktail of the Week: The Versatile Mule

  by Kathryn Smith

  Enjoy a variation of the Moscow Mule as a summer cocktail (alcohol optional) with a history lesson on the cocktail's creation. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/5/2021
  

  Women Used to Dominate the Beer Industry – Until the Witch Accusations Started Pouring In

  by Laken Brooks

  Male brewers seized on the conservative ideas of the Reformation to push women out of the brewing trade through accusations of witchery. Today's craft beer culture, unlike the home brewing of old, is male-dominated.

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• SOURCE: American Enterprise Institute
  12/9/2020
  

  From Fish House Punch to Bud Light: America’s Long, Complicated Relationship with Alcohol (Web Event, 12/17)

  To mark the centennial of Prohibition, please join AEI’s Kevin R. Kosar for a conversation exploring how alcohol has influenced America’s economy, politics, and culture.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/29/2020
  

  Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash

  A look inside the subculture of "dusty hunters," collectors of old-stock liquor. Usually this means finding discontinued brands in the back of a liquor store, but sometimes it means buying a legendary film director's supply. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/4/2020
  

  Let Us Drink in Public

  Many modern open container laws derive from previous “public drunkenness” and “vagrancy” ordinances that criminalized not just alcoholism, but also poverty and homelessness.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/23/2020
  

  The Many Faces of the ‘Wine Mom’

  Historian Lisa Jacobson explains that the "Wine Mom" meme is rooted in gender and middle class norms regulating women's obligations to their children (and women's desire for freedom from them).

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• SOURCE: University of Washington History Department
  4/15/2020
  

  In Memoriam: William Rorabaugh

  William Rorabaugh, known to his colleagues as Bill, was a popular teacher and prolific scholar whose legacy will be felt for many years to come.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/16/20
  

  Prohibition Was a Failed Experiment in Moral Governance

  by Annika Neklason

  A repealed amendment and generations of Supreme Court rulings have left the constitutional regulation of private behavior in the past. Will it stay there?

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• 5/7/19
  

  A Bloody Mary Bar and a Barroom Full of Fun

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The story includes the history of the Bloody Mary, Irish Coffee. Champagne and the Bellini, brunch drinks, told in spirited, light hearted songs presented by a seasoned and a deliciously giddy cast.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  2/18/19
  

  How To Drink Like A President

  The drinking habits of presidents past and present.