A student in my senior seminar is interested in the reform of
drinking practices in general fraternal societies such as the
Freemasons and the Odd Fellows.  There is a very general account in
Mary Ann Clawson, CONSTRUCTING BROTHERHOOD: CLASS, GENDER, AND
FRATERNALISM (1989).  Any suggestions about other secondary sources?
Primary sources?  His assumption is that the practices in such
fraternal societies changed as the temperance movement developed in
the nineteenth and early twentieth century and presumably again in
the mid-twentieth century as society accepted alcoholic drink as part
of ordinary sociability.
 
David Fahey (Miami)
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