Jackson, J.J. (1978). Prohibition in New Orleans: The unlikeliest crusade. Louisiana History . 19 (3), 261–284.Jackson, Joy, "Prohibition in New Orleans: The Unlikeliest Crusade," Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, 1978, 19 (3), 261-284....
Dutch Schultz was an American gangster of the 1920s and ’30s who ran bootlegging and other rackets in New York City. Born in the Bronx, Schultz took his alias from an old-time Bronx gangster and advanced from burglaries to bootlegging, ownership of brew
ProhibitionalsohadalargeeffectonthemusicindustryintheUnitedStates,specificallywithjazz.SpeakeasiesbecamefarmorepopularduringthattimeandtheeffectsoftheGreatDepressioncausedamigrationthatledtoagreaterdispersalofjazzmusic.MovementbeganfromNewOrleansandwentnorththroughChicagoandtoNewYork.Thisalsomeantdevelopingdifferentstylesin...
1 In the winter of 1932, a similar novel outbreak of malaria among injecting heroin users occupied Dr. Guy Henry Faget, an Assistant Surgeon at the United States Marine Hospital in New Orleans, a facility serving...doi:10.1093/dh/dhab044Joseph F Spillane...
Thornton, M., (2007), Prohibition versus legalization: do economists reach a conclusion on drug policy? The Independent Review, XI, n. 3, pp. 417-433.Thornton, M., Prohibition vs. Legalization: Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Drug Policy?, 2002, New Orleans, on http://mises.org/...
Why is it that young Italian-American men were shooting each other over turf during the prohibition of alcohol in the 20th century, and young African-American men are shooting each other over turf in the 21st? Was this just a historical accident? Could it easily have been the other way ...