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Described as “a great social and economic experiment” by President Herbert Hoover, the National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, went into effect 100 years ago, in January 1920. The problem with Prohibition is that it didn’t. Prohibition was filled with loopholes. The 18th Amendment made it illegal to
January 24, 2020 • Axel Borg
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Fifty years on from the heyday of the counterculture movement that defined the visual design aesthetic of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the UC Davis Library invites you to visit the Shields Library lobby exhibit, Counterculture by Design: Concert Posters from Archives and Special Collections. The term “Counterculture” refers