Carnegie Council Podcasts
Carnegie Council Podcasts
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr
28 minutes Posted Jan 18, 2019 at 9:57 am.
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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.