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Jason Lantzer

Assistant Director, Honors Program

Butler University

Jason S. Lantzer is the author of two books on Prohibition, Prohibition is Here to Stay: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) and Interpreting the Prohibition Era at Museums and Historic Sites (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). An historian who looks at the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American culture, he holds three degrees from Indiana University and currently serves as the assistant director of Butler University’s Honors Program. In addition to his work on Prohibition, he is the author of one other published book, with two more awaiting publication, as well as numerous articles and reviews.

Blog Posts

Raise a glass to the 21st amendment!

December 5, 2016
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War on Drugs

December 5, 1933 is a landmark date in American Constitutional history, for it marks the only time that a constitutional amendment has been ratified to repeal another constitutional amendment. In this case, the Twenty-First Amendment was enacted to end the Eighteenth Amendment, which had come into effect in 1920. And only one issue could possibly be important enough to merit this kind of constitutional attention: alcohol. The Long History of Prohibition The prohibition of alcohol, enacted in the midst of the Progressive Era, was a long time coming, even if modern Americans have difficulties understanding