The Freemasons of America have been running an interesting TV ad about their contributions to U.S. history. A man impersonating Ben Franklin urges folks to get more information about the Masons in ...

Behind the doors of this old sanctuary, its roots going all the way back to 1850, are 467 members strong, a band of oath-abiding men who have passed the mantle of tradition, ritual and rite from Grand ...

Three centuries of Masonic history are on display in Cedar Rapids. 'Celebrating 300 Years of Freemasonry, 1717-2017: Masonic Treasures of the Grand Lodge of Iowa,” opened in June and will remain on ...

Conspiracy theories abound about the Freemasons. But Scotland’s true Masonic history, while forgotten by many for centuries, remains hidden in plain sight. With its cobblestone paving and Georgian ...

Freemasonry has long had a relationship to the politics of both left and right. Bourgeois revolutionaries in France and America and modern mainstream politicians have all been members, as were some ...

The Gothic Revival facade of one of Middle Tennessee's oldest buildings leans out by about eight inches. Its "fire escape" is a rope ladder, still snugly packed inside a fading box. Its third story ...

Curators combing through a vast historic archive of Freemasonry in Europe amassed by the Nazis in their wartime anti-Masonic purge say they believe there are still secrets to be unearthed. Masonic ...

The supposed secrets of Freemasonry are hiding in plain sight at the convergence of two Oregon state highways. At the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon's library and museum in Forest Grove, volumes of ...

A chronology of major events in Prince Hall freemasonry -- Introduction : the revolution in freemasonry / by Peter P. Hinks and Stephen Kantrowitz -- Emancipation and the social origins of black ...

“The Lost Symbol,” author Dan Brown’s new, violent thriller, involves some strange findings at a Masonic temple near the White House. (Wine-filled skull and severed hand, anyone?) Brown capitalizes on ...