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Last Call by Daniel Okrent
Call Number: 363.410973 OKR
ISBN: 9780743277044
Publication Date: 2011-05-31
The Prohibition Era by Louise Chipley Slavicek
Call Number: 363.410973 SLA
ISBN: 9781604130058
Publication Date: 2008-10-01

Lesson plans on Prohibition
based on the Ken Burns documentary series
Snapshot activities on Prohibition

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Crash Course

Useful Web Sites

Prohibition
multi-media resource, includes film clips and an interactive map
The Jazz Age: The American 1920s
Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
primary sources on Prohibition
18th and 19th amendments
The Fight Against "Demon Rum"
Virtual Library: History: United States 1920-1929
Digital History: 1920s
Temperence and Prohibition
from Ohio State University, contains lots of primary sources
Nation Welcomes Prohibition 1920-1933.
from State University of New York
Anti-Saloon League Museum Collection
primary sources
Prohibition in Chicago
a photo gallery of primary source photographs from the Chicago Tribune
The Roaring Twenties
Life in the United States of America, 1920-33

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