Steven C Bullock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven C Bullock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bullock |
| SIGNATURE | BULLOCK S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2972-6416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776 Kristin A. Olbertson
Journal Article The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776. By Kristin A. Olbertson Get access The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776. By Kristin A. Olbertson ( Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 258 pp. $59.99). Steven C Bullock Steven C Bullock Worcester Polytechnic Institute [email protected] https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2972-6416 Search for other works…
The Patron Saint of Civility?
When he was 25, Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about “divisions” and “confusion” within public life. To confront “parties” that sought selfish gain, Franklin proposed a society of broad-minded people that sought the good of everyone. Such a “United Party for Virtue” could change the world. Franklin thought so highly of these youthful “Observations” that he added them to his Autobiography in 1788, over 50 years later. The problem of civil discou…
Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America
Catherine E. Kelly. Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
Catherine E. Kelly’s new book, Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America, speaks of a “republic of taste,” encompassing both the American art world in the early years of the new nation and the moral, aesthetic, and political values and ideals it represented and sought to develop. She also argues that these hopes for a nation dedicated to such lofty standards were deeply problematic, plagued by tensions at almost every t…
The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral: Glove-Giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth-Century New England
Steven C. Bullock, Sheila McIntyre, The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral: Glove-Giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth-Century New England, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 305-346
From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680-1760
Remapping Masonry: A Comment
Remapping Masonry: A Comment Steven C. Bullock (bio) Until recently, Freemasonry mystified historians. Faced with an institution that dressed its members in aprons and dubbed them Grand High Priests and Emperors of the East and West, scholars usually declined the interpretive challenge, ceding the field to enthusiastic but often credulous antiquarians and conspiracy theorists. This situation has begun to change in the past decade or so, however. …
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Journal Article Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840. By Steven C. Bullock. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xx, 421 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2282-5.) Get access Bruce Dorsey Bruce Dorsey Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, Septembe…
Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America. Jama Lazerow
A Mumper among the Gentle: Tom Bell, Colonial Confidence Man
S OMETIME in late spring I74I, a man in clerical attire entered a Princeton, New Jersey, tavern. Magistrate John Stockton immediately recognized the Reverend John Rowland, an important figure in the religious revival then taking place in the region. Stockton hurried over to invite the visiting worthy to his house. To his surprise, the man responded that Stockton was mistaken; his name was not Remarking the strong resemblance, the embarrassed Stoc…
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction by a massive anti-Masonic movement almost a century later and its subsequent reconfiguration into the brotherhood we know today. With a membe…
Material Culture of the American Freemasons . John D. Hamilton
The Revolutionary Transformation of American Freemasonry, 1752-1792
WYP HEN Brother Benjamin Franklin died in I790, Philadelphia's Masonic lodges were conspicuously absent from the funeral. An estimated 20,000 people, in a city of about 42,000, watched the procession-a concourse of Spectators, judged the Pennsylvania Gazette, greater than ever was known on a like occasion. The Society of the Cincinnati, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council and Assembly of the state took part, as did, the Gazette no…
A Pure and Sublime System: The Appeal of Post-Revolutionary Freemasonry
By the time Hiram Hopkins took his seventh degree of in August 1826, had decided Freemasonry was of extraordinary importance. I thought, recalled, that nothing excelled the masonic degrees, except the Christian religion, and thought they were but little surpassed even by that. His final degree-the Royal Arch-involved two or three hours of hard labor, but Hopkins again found himself excited by the ritual, which was, according to the most popular c…
A Mumper among the Gentle: Tom Bell, Colonial Confidence Man
S OMETIME in late spring I74I, a man in clerical attire entered a Princeton, New Jersey, tavern. Magistrate John Stockton immediately recognized the Reverend John Rowland, an important figure in the religious revival then taking place in the region. Stockton hurried over to invite the visiting worthy to his house. To his surprise, the man responded that Stockton was mistaken; his name was not Remarking the strong resemblance, the embarrassed Stoc…
The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral: Glove-Giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth-Century New England
Steven C. Bullock, Sheila McIntyre, The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral: Glove-Giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth-Century New England, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 305-346
Remapping Masonry: A Comment
Remapping Masonry: A Comment Steven C. Bullock (bio) Until recently, Freemasonry mystified historians. Faced with an institution that dressed its members in aprons and dubbed them Grand High Priests and Emperors of the East and West, scholars usually declined the interpretive challenge, ceding the field to enthusiastic but often credulous antiquarians and conspiracy theorists. This situation has begun to change in the past decade or so, however. …
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
A Pure and Sublime System: The Appeal of Post-Revolutionary Freemasonry
By the time Hiram Hopkins took his seventh degree of in August 1826, had decided Freemasonry was of extraordinary importance. I thought, recalled, that nothing excelled the masonic degrees, except the Christian religion, and thought they were but little surpassed even by that. His final degree-the Royal Arch-involved two or three hours of hard labor, but Hopkins again found himself excited by the ritual, which was, according to the most popular c…
A Pure and Sublime System: The Appeal of Post-Revolutionary Freemasonry
By the time Hiram Hopkins took his seventh degree of in August 1826, had decided Freemasonry was of extraordinary importance. I thought, recalled, that nothing excelled the masonic degrees, except the Christian religion, and thought they were but little surpassed even by that. His final degree-the Royal Arch-involved two or three hours of hard labor, but Hopkins again found himself excited by the ritual, which was, according to the most popular c…
The Revolutionary Transformation of American Freemasonry, 1752-1792
WYP HEN Brother Benjamin Franklin died in I790, Philadelphia's Masonic lodges were conspicuously absent from the funeral. An estimated 20,000 people, in a city of about 42,000, watched the procession-a concourse of Spectators, judged the Pennsylvania Gazette, greater than ever was known on a like occasion. The Society of the Cincinnati, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council and Assembly of the state took part, as did, the Gazette no…
Material Culture of the American Freemasons . John D. Hamilton
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction by a massive anti-Masonic movement almost a century later and its subsequent reconfiguration into the brotherhood we know today. With a membe…
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Journal Article Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840. By Steven C. Bullock. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xx, 421 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2282-5.) Get access Bruce Dorsey Bruce Dorsey Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, Septembe…
Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America. Jama Lazerow
A Mumper among the Gentle: Tom Bell, Colonial Confidence Man
S OMETIME in late spring I74I, a man in clerical attire entered a Princeton, New Jersey, tavern. Magistrate John Stockton immediately recognized the Reverend John Rowland, an important figure in the religious revival then taking place in the region. Stockton hurried over to invite the visiting worthy to his house. To his surprise, the man responded that Stockton was mistaken; his name was not Remarking the strong resemblance, the embarrassed Stoc…
Remapping Masonry: A Comment
Remapping Masonry: A Comment Steven C. Bullock (bio) Until recently, Freemasonry mystified historians. Faced with an institution that dressed its members in aprons and dubbed them Grand High Priests and Emperors of the East and West, scholars usually declined the interpretive challenge, ceding the field to enthusiastic but often credulous antiquarians and conspiracy theorists. This situation has begun to change in the past decade or so, however. …
From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680-1760
The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral: Glove-Giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth-Century New England
Steven C. Bullock, Sheila McIntyre, The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral: Glove-Giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth-Century New England, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 305-346
Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America
Catherine E. Kelly. Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
Catherine E. Kelly’s new book, Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America, speaks of a “republic of taste,” encompassing both the American art world in the early years of the new nation and the moral, aesthetic, and political values and ideals it represented and sought to develop. She also argues that these hopes for a nation dedicated to such lofty standards were deeply problematic, plagued by tensions at almost every t…
The Patron Saint of Civility?
When he was 25, Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about “divisions” and “confusion” within public life. To confront “parties” that sought selfish gain, Franklin proposed a society of broad-minded people that sought the good of everyone. Such a “United Party for Virtue” could change the world. Franklin thought so highly of these youthful “Observations” that he added them to his Autobiography in 1788, over 50 years later. The problem of civil discou…
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776 Kristin A. Olbertson
Journal Article The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776. By Kristin A. Olbertson Get access The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776. By Kristin A. Olbertson ( Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 258 pp. $59.99). Steven C Bullock Steven C Bullock Worcester Polytechnic Institute [email protected] https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2972-6416 Search for other works…
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