Bruce Dorsey

Biographic Data

ID1081389
NAMEBruce Dorsey
GIVEN NAMESBruce
FAMILY NAMEDorsey
SIGNATUREDORSEY B
AFFILIATIONSSwarthmore College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    Open AccessBruce DorseyARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2020

    The early radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay, whom historians have generally neglected, spent his lifetime being a troublemaker. This contentious agitator, the subject of Marcus Rediker’s compelling The Fearless Benjamin Lay: the Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, elicited intense rage and even contempt from Quaker leaders and slaveholders in colonial Pennsylvania. He was best known during his lifetime – and in memory – …

  • Forgotten Men and Fallen Women

    Bruce DorseyARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    If we are inclined to see the story of depression-era America in the troubled face of a migrant farm-worker mother from Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph, Holly Allen's study of cultural narratives of the New Deal and World War II prompts us to reconsider that association. Resonating across the political and cultural landscape explored in Forgotten Men and Fallen Women were narratives that voiced the threats to white male breadwinners and citize…

  • Making Men What They Should Be”

    Bruce DorseyARTICLEJournal of the History of Sexuality2015Cited by: 2References: 8

    Perhaps Hiram felt a warm breath on his cheek before realizing that he was awake. The sensation of lips touching his flesh started his heart pounding. It was a kiss. From what dream had he been so abruptly interrupted? A faint glimpse of moonlight offered the only illumination in the dark garret room. Hiram tried to remain perfectly still. A second kiss. The sensation of flesh touching flesh convinced him it was not a dream. He felt a warm hand m…

  • Reforming Men and Women

    Amy S Greenberg, Bruce Dorsey et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002Cited by: 4

  • A Gendered History of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States

    Bruce DorseyARTICLEJournal of Social History2000

    Journal Article A Gendered History of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States Get access Bruce Dorsey Bruce Dorsey Swarthmore College, Department of HistorySwarthmore, PA 19081 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Fall 2000, Pages 77–103, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2000.0101 Published: 01 October 2000

  • A Melancholy Scene of Devastation

    Bruce Dorsey, J Worth Estes et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Friends Becoming Enemies

    Bruce DorseyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1998Cited by: 1

    At the end of the 1820s, American Quakers suffered a bitter and longterm division known as the Hicksite schism.Following a boisterous and caustic Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in April 1827, a group of Quaker reformers separated themselves from the main body of Friends, and formed their own independent meeting.The schism in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting spread rapidly outward in concentric circles disrupting other Quaker meetings throughout North…

  • Revolutionary Brotherhood

    Bruce Dorsey, Steven C BullockARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    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…

  • History of Manhood in America, 1750-1920

    Bruce DorseyARTICLERadical History Review1996Cited by: 1

    Research Article| January 01 1996 History of Manhood in America, 1750–1920 Bruce Dorsey Bruce Dorsey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 19–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-64-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce Dorsey; History of Manhood in America, 1750–1920. Radical History Review 1 January 1996; 1996 (64): 19–30. doi: https:/…