They were most famous for bootlegging, but also managed gambling, prostitution, and abortion. While outlaws operated independently of mobsters, they did rely on organized gangs for the tools of ...

American Gangster shows some of Frank Lucas ... Tom Hardy plays two famous gangsters at once in Legend, often sharing the ...

If you’re comparing and contrasting yourself with one of the most famous gangsters, you might think one would be talking about the way they dress or their hair—and we know Trump is one who ...

Short-barrel shotguns and rifles were banned in the 1930s; why would anyone, much less a senator, want them back?

During the Great Depression, gangsters became unlikely heroes. As film historian Jeanine Basinger notes in this clip, "The gangster figure represented somebody at the bottom of the social scale ...