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 ...

Freemasonry is the world’s most famous secret society. Its secrecy, indeed, made it into one of history’s most contagious ideas—and thus its history offers a striking lesson in the power of mystery.

Secrets, codes, hidden treasures and lost religions. We just can't seem to get enough, including movies like National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code, which both swirled around secrets of the Knights ...

The Provo Masonic Temple officially opens it doors to the community once a year, but the Freemasons of Utah County strive to improve themselves daily, believing their individual efforts make a ...

The Masons, a fraternal organization whose members have included George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, may be unacceptable to Southern Baptists because of the group’s secret, symbolic rituals. At ...

THEY may not actually ride goats but they do have a funny handshake and occasionally wear their trouser legs rolled up. There are six million Freemasons around the world but little is known about the ...

What does the word Freemasons conjure in your mind? Practitioners of occult rituals? Old white presidents? Or perhaps, a polite term for the Illuminati? Tom Savini, director of the Chancellor Robert R ...

A good historian, said William D. Moore, tries to find a subject that nobody else has written very much about. Moore - an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington ...