Lisa Jacobson, “Intoxicating Pleasures,” Humanities Decanted Dialogue

Thursday, February 27, 4:00 p.m.

McCune Conference Room

Presented by the Department of History

Lisa Jacobson, Professor of History at UCSB, will discuss her new book Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition. The book explores how consumers and soldiers helped reshape alcohol’s role in American culture after the Prohibition, making it central to debates on citizenship and personal freedoms.