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What's the Deal Grosse Ile? Last week, I did an hour long podcast on "Prohibition on the Detroit River" in the Downriver area ...

The age of the flapper--1920s Once World War I ended and the doughboys returned from Europe, young men and women were ready to shed th...

The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit’s Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America’s most notorious and violent Prohibition gang...

During the lawless period of Prohibition, law enforcement and the underworld took full advantage of the automobile as their mode of tr...

Photo credit: Don Gutz I just returned from a research trip to the Walter Reuther Library and the Wyandotte Historical Museum to fin...

Purple Gang perp walk. A decisive federal arrest of Purple Gang members marked a change in the public attitude towards Detroit's m...

Wine Brick Once Prohibition became law on January 16, 1920, many wine producers in California got out of the wine business and convert...

Thompson Submachine Gun and black jack on display at Detroit Historical Museum. In the early years of Prohibition in America, t...

With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to our United States Constitution and the Volstead Act on October 28, 1919, the manufacture...

Russian immigrants waiting on Ellis Island. Detroit's slums were the breeding ground for crime and violence when waves of Europea...

Torch Murderers Frank Oliver, Fred Smith, and David Blackstone protected from the lynch mob outside by Washtenaw County Police and Harry ...