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This lecture is an historical overview of alcohol manufacturing in Appalachia from the eighteenth century to the late twentieth century.  It will highlight the reasons for distilling alcohol during the antebellum period and the rise of moonshining in the region after the passage of the Federal Liquor Tax in 1862.  It will also chronicle the changes that took place in the art of alcohol production during the 1920s and 1930s, concluding with a discussion on the origins of NASCAR and the apparent decline of moonshining at the end of the twentieth century. Presenter: Bruce E. Stewart is an Associate Professor of History at Appalachian State University.  He is the author of Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia  and the editor of King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction  and Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia.

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