It’s hard to overstate the social upheaval associated with the prohibition of alcohol in America a century ago.
The sorry saga of banning one of mankind’s most ancient practices had its institutional beginning in 1826 with the founding of the American Temperance Society (ATS). The ATS’s mission was to encourage individuals to take a public pledge of lifetime abstinence from alcohol.
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