BackStory

 Mentioned on the Show

Meacham, Sarah H. Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Mancall, Peter. Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Morone, James. Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Outside Links

Watch the History Guys do a live version of this show in Milwaukee earlier this year.

To make your own cocktails from a bygone era, try these recipes shared with us by the kind folks at Comfort Restaurant in Richmond.

Will Ferrell likes Old Milwaukee beer and makes funny fake commercials saying so.

A selection of vintage beer commercials to make you thirsty.

Benjamin Franklin’s Drinker’s Dictionary, dramatized.

The Wisconsin Historical Society’s records dealing with Prohibition.

Works Consulted

Lender, Mark Edward and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A History. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Powers, Madelon. Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.