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The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr
The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jan 18, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In the second podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, historian Ted Widmer talks to Harvard's Professor Lisa McGirr about Prohibition's roots in anti-immigrant sentiment and its enforcement, in some cases, by the Ku Klux Klan. Plus, they discuss the Eighteenth Amendment's connections to World War I and the rise of the modern American state.
Released:
Jan 18, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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