# Prologue article, "Spirited Republic: Alcohol's Evolving Role in U.S. History" (Winter 2014)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-prologue-spirited-republic-2014/

Prologue article by National Archives senior curator Bruce Bustard introducing the exhibition "Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History", and pointing to National Archives records on Prohibition.

The article by Bruce Bustard, senior curator, appeared in Prologue, Winter 2014 (Vol. 46, No. 4). It introduces the National Archives exhibition "Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History," which covers attitudes to alcohol from the colonial period through the modern presidency and cites National Archives records. The page links to NARA teaching material on the Volstead Act and to a Prologue post on Prohibition and the rise of gangsters. The page notes that articles do not necessarily represent the views of NARA.

Only the opening and closing sections were read closely for this archive, and the linked post on gangsters redirected to the general blog index and was not read. The article is useful here as the pointer to the "Spirited Republic" exhibit records filed in this archive, among them the Doran letter to the Wickersham Commission and the Seattle memorandum.

## Sources

- National Archives, Prologue magazine: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/winter/spirited-republic