The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr

Carnegie Council Podcasts

English - January 18, 2019 17:57 - 28 minutes - 32.4 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Previous Episode: Global Ethics Weekly: 1919 & the Modern World, with Ted Widmer

Next Episode: Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy, with George Magnus

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.