Michael Halleran

Michael Halleran (born 1963) is an American scholar who writes on Freemasonry. A practicing attorney in Kansas, he received a master’s degree in American History from the University of Kansas in 1989 and his juris doctorate from Washburn University, in Topeka, Kansas in 1995. He is a practicing Freemason, an officer in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, and a member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Correspondent’s Circle (United Grand Lodge of England).

Halleran is an adjunct lecturer at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. He has lectured on 19th century military Masons in both the United States and Great Britain. In 2006 he was awarded the Scottish Rite Research Society’s Albert G. Mackey Award for Excellence in Masonic Scholarship for his article on Masonic courtesy in the American Civil War, and in 2008 he received the Nova Award from Internet Lodge No. 9659.^[1] He is the author of both articles and a book on Masons in the Civil War, as well as a regular column in the Scottish Rite Journal recounting the adventures of Bro. Hiram Brother, a 19th Century Mason.^[2] The stories are framed as extracts from Bro. Brother's previously undiscovered journals.

References

1. ^ Internet Lodge Library of Papers
2. ^ "Bro. Brother's Journal," Scottish Rite Journal, September-October 2007

Bibliography

• "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Masonic Courtesy & Relief in the American Civil War," Heredom, Vol. 14 (2006).
• "Gentlemen of the White Apron: Masonic POWS in the American Civil War," Heredom, Vol. 15 (2007).
• "Over Thar a Little Way: Masonic Mercies in the American Civil War," Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol. 121 (2008).
• "Toh-MAY-toh, Toh-MAH-toh: Shibboleths Beyond the Craft", Scottish Rite Journal, (July-August, 2008).
• "Be on the Qui Vive: Cowans, Swindlers, and Con Men, Then and Now," Scottish Rite Journal, (May-June, 2009).
• “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War, published by the University of Alabama Press
• "The Widow’s Son: Lewis Armistead at Gettysburg," The Gettysburg Magazine, Vol. 43, (July, 2010).
• "The Jebusite’s Jobsite: The Masonic Significance of Ornan the Jebusite & his Threshing Floor," The Plumbline, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer 2010).
• "Freemasons in the Civil War," North & South Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 5 (2010).
• "'Hold on, Boys...' Freemasonry in the Border War, 1854 - 1865," Philalethes, Vol. 64 No. 2 ( Spring 2011).
• "The Babylonian Temptation and Other Perils of Masonic Research," Journal of the Masonic Society, 13 ( Summer 2011).

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