You already know that I am trying to get this listserv group started and that I teach a senior seminar on drink and temperance in English-speaking countries (history department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA). I have been interested in temperance and drink history since the late 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s I published several articles on late Victorian/Edwardian Eng- land (and have a related semi-completed book manuscript in a file drawer). I then got obsessed with the Good Templar international fraternal temperance so- ciety and published an edition of the writings of a woman Templar named Jessie Forsyth in 1988. Increasingly my interest was as much in fraternalism as in drink and largely connected with racial attitudes and behavior. Recently I completed a working draft (needs pruning and sharper focus) of a book ten- tatively entitled JOHN BULL, JOHNNY REB, AND RACISM: THE GOOD TEMPLARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. David Fahey (Miami Univ.) [log in to unmask]