Why We Drank a Shocking Amount in 1830
History of alcohol in America. People drank liquor back in the day because drinking water wasn’t safe, and alcohol was cheap - that's the basic premise. But there's so much more to America's complicated relationship with booze. And while writing this history of alcohol in the US, I couldn't help but think of modern issues of overconsumption, which I address towards the end.
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0:00 How much?
2:25 What?
2:53 Where?
3:15 When?
4:42 Milk
5:47 Who?
6:52 Temperance
9:10 Prohibition
9:48 Writer's Block
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