Three classic The History Guy episodes about bootleggers of the American Midwest. A half hour of the History Guy
00:00 Prohibition and The Quad Cities Vice Lord, John Looney
09:31 The Charlie Birger Gang and Little Egypt
22:11 The "King of the Bootleggers" and a loophole in the Volstead Act
This episode will be released on YouTube June 21.
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.