Bio
Lisa McGirr is a professor of history at Harvard University. She is the author of The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State and Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right.
Featured Work
![Orange County Sheriff's deputies dumping illegal alcohol, Santa Ana, California, 1932. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_County_Sheriff%27s_deputies_dumping_illegal_booze,_Santa_Ana,_3-31-1932.jpg">Orange County Archives/(CC)</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/import/studio/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Prohibition.jpg?v=1719361157)
JAN 18, 2019 • Podcast
The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr
In the second podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, historian Ted Widmer talks to Harvard's Professor Lisa McGirr ...