Chest Lid with Masonic Painting (1825–1845) (image courtesy American Folk Art Museum, gift of Kendra and Allan Daniel, all images courtesy the Bullock Texas State History Museum and the American Folk ...

President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in Tuesday will incorporate several elements out of America’s Masonic past. One-third of the signers of the Constitution, many of the Bill of Rights signers and ...

2004-03-10 04:00:00 PDT Patchogue, N.Y.-- The initiation rituals at the Masonic lodge here had been bathed in secrecy over the years. The climax of Monday night's ceremony was to be a simple prank. A ...

Historically, chanting was performed for masonic and other rituals. Even George Washington, after laying the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol Building, received a round of masonic chanting to ...

Guns, a guillotine and mechanical rat traps played a regular role in a secret Masonic ritual that turned deadly for a Long Island man, police said yesterday. Initiates to the Fellowcraft Club of the ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., March 10 (UPI) -- Members of a New York Masonic lodge grieved Wednesday over the shooting death of a man who was being initiated into the group. William James, 47, was sitting in ...

Colin Dickey - Author, Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy An illustration of William Morgan's abduction Cassell's History of the United States via the ...