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 ...

Secret societies and organisations have long fascinated outsiders, but few have attracted as much intrigue and speculation throughout history as the Freemasons. It is the "world's largest secret ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An initiation ceremony at a Masonic Lodge in New York has ended in tragedy after a man was killed during a ritual for new members. William James was accidentally shot in the head when a lodge member ...