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synonymous with saloons and it was so powerful not only would guys go have a schooner of beer and go back to the back room and have lunch but lots of respectable women would actually go, just to the back room only have lunch and they literally did have a free lunch. but here is the twist. >> sounds like there was a free lunch. >> yeah, there was a free lunch, until prohibition. >> not according to the temperance forces. having encouraged saloons to serve lunch they came up with the slogan, there is no free lunch. and they used that to underscore the price that workers were paying for...

whisky distillery at mt. vernon and a lecture on the history of opiates in america from scott martin. next, the history of beer and spirits in america. it's presented by backstory with the american history guys. this was recorded at the annual meeting of historians and national council on public history. it's an hour and 20 minutes. >> are you ready, guys? >> ready. >> plug it in. >> all right. >> hey, on the air, dude. >> major production support for backstory was provided by the national endowment for the humanities. ♪ >> from the virginia foundation for the humanities in charlot...

self-conscious, or is this natural, or kind of forced by kind of yuppiefication? >> it's natural as this beer. but also it's the interest in foods that are local, handmade. i mean, how many of you home brew? i'm sure there must be some home brewers. yes. >> all the people in the front row. >> that's a good sign. >> exactly. >> so what does it taste like now? >> well, your pbr i think is a little bland. but that spreker dockelbach is a little -- >> let's drink to 2012. >> yes. >> the history moves in more than one direction. it would be the implication i would draw from this. >> oh, m...

♪ >> from the virginia foundation for humanities, this is "back story." >> it's october 8th, 1871, we're in chicago. and the fire is spreading. it's a horrible fire. nobody's exactly shu how it started. it started on the west side of chicago, but it's spreading incredibly quickly. and before long, the central district is aflame, and by the end of two days, 300 people are dead and 100,000 people are left homeless. >> in the weeks following the great chicago fire, people all over the country rally to help the great city. businessmen in places like boston and new york and cincinnati s...

ed's century. i am sorry, i didn't mean -- >> it is all right. >> there is growing concern as the revolution approaches of nobody knows this, of course, be like historians, they don't know it but there is a growing concern about drinking in certain areas. one of the things is that the taverns are crowded with lots of people and including a future patriots and they have been squeezed out of the legislature so what else are 24e they going to do? they'll have a drink about it. maybe there is too much drinking and too much rowdiness in the cities and the mob that is the patriots use in o...