- Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure
 - Essay by Mark Thornton, Assistant Professor of Economics at Auburn University. - Eighteenth Amendment@
- Find sites about the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution which was passed in 1817 to establish the Prohibition in the United States. Sites include background information, text, and annotations of the amendment as well as the Volstead Act which defined intoxicating liquors excluding those used for religious purpose.
- Ness, Eliot (1903-1957)@
- Read about Eliot Ness, an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois. Sites offer biography, relationship with the FBI, writing credits, photos, articles, and trivia about the federal agent who led a group of eleven law-enforcement agents called The Untouchables.
- Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s
- Text of a lecture by Stanley K. Schultz.
- Prohibition in Oregon
- Discusses the state's reaction to the federal law.
- Prohibition in the 1920s
- Including reasons for its failures and its immediate effects on society.
- Prohibition: A Time to Hide Liquor
- Annotated list of sites.
- Temperance & Prohibition
- Includes articles, cartoons, and photographs.
- Twenty-First Amendment@
- Learn about the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States of Constitution which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. Sites include background information, text, and annotations from the 1933 amendement which repealed prohibition.
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