Valley of the Craftsmen: A Pictorial History: Scottish Rite Freemasonry in America's Southern Jurisdiction, 1801-2001

In Valley of the Craftsmen, the story of "higher degree" Freemasonry is depicted through portraits, official papers, material objects, photographs, buildings, and stagecraft. Featuring many previously unpublished images, Valley of the Craftsmen begins with rare illustrations of the English and French philosophical sources that were projected upon an American landscape vitalized and transformed by the concept of fraternity. The story is framed by American popular culture and the serious private effort of individual men in small towns and expansive cities who were intent on developing a moral life in service to their communities.

WILLIAM L. FOX is acting vice-president for enrollment management at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of St. Lawrence, Harvard, and George Washington Universities, Fox is the author of a full-scale history of American Freemasonry, Lodge of the Double-Head Eagle, and is the founding and general editor of a ten-volume series, Studies in Church History. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.