Freemasonry on the Frontier
*** To Be Published January 2021 ***
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A collection of seventeen original papers by leading Masonic researchers and academics tracking the evolution of Freemasonry in America from the original thirteen colonies to the Pacific Coast. Contributors include Ric Berman, Brent Morris, Mike Kearsley, Barry Hoffbrand, John Wade, Adam Kendall, and Andreas Önnerfors, members of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, and a number of outstanding American scholars: Ben Williams, Hilary Anderson Stelling, Hans Schwartz ,John Kyle Day, Jeffrey Croteau, Andrew Hammer, Daniel Gardiner, and Walter H. Hunt, as well as two brilliant European writers, Peter Lanchidi from Israel and Leif Endre Grutle from Norway
Papers Include
The American Frontier: The Foundations of American Freemasonry:
America’s First Provincial Grand Masters
Ric Berman
A Jewish-Christian Debate on Sectarian Freemasonry in the American Press
Peter Lanchidi
The Higher Degrees in the United States, 1730–1830S.
Brent Morris
Rob Morris and the Conservator Movement on the Development of Masonic Ritual in the United States
Mike Kearsley
Henry Harford: Last Proprietor and Provincial Grand Master of Maryland
Barry Hoffbrand
Der Triangel: A German Masonic Newspaper in the USA
Andreas Önnerfors
Freemasonry in ‘Pike’s Peak Country’
Ben Williams
Rare Jewels: Early New York City Mark Medals
Hilary Anderson Stelling
From Centre to Circumference, From Base to Cope:
Founding the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Arkansas, F. & A. M., c.1862–1902
John Kyle
Dayiv Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076The Neo-Colonial Expansionism of Massachusetts Masonry
Walter H. Hunt
Scandinavian Immigrants and New World Freemasonry
Leif Endre Grutle
Freemasonry in Revolutionary Boston
Hans Schwartz
Scottish-Transatlantic Masonic Medical Links in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesJ
ohn S. Wade
Joseph Cerneau vs. Emanuel De La Motta:
Understanding the Founding of the Scottish Rite’s Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in 1813 through the Lens of Religious Intolerance
Jeffrey Croteau
The Scandals and Secret Rites of Benjamin Hyam, California’s 3rd Grand Master
Adam Kendall
Frontiers and the Future: The Grand Lodge of Washington, DC
Andrew Hammer
Death and Masonic Funerals in Territorial Idaho and Montana
Daniel Gardiner