Recommended Reading

Anderson, James. The Constitutions of the Free-Masons: Containing the History, Charges, regulations, &c. of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity: for use in Lodges. London: William Hunter, 1723. Facsimile edit. 1976, Abington, England: Burgess & Son, Ltd., 1976.

Bullock, Steven C. Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Cerza, Alphonse A Masonic Reader’s Guide. Fulton, MO: Transactions of the Missouri Lodge of Research, vol. no. 34, 1978-79.

Claudy, Carl, H. Introduction to Freemasonry. 3 Vols., Washington, DC: The Temple Publishers, 1931.

Coil, Henry. Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia. Richmond, VA: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, rev. ed. 1996.

Cooper, Robert L.D. The Rosslyn Hoax? Viewing Rosslyn Chapel in a New Perspective. London: Lewis Masonic, 2006.

Cracking the Freemasons' Code. Random House. 2006.

_________________. Red Triangle: A Brief History of Anti-Masonry. London: Lewis Masonic, 2010.

_________________. Masonic Magician - The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro. Watkins, 2008.

_________________. Origins and History of the Order of Free Gardeners. Lewis Masonic, 2024.

DeHoyos, Arturo and S. Brent Morris. Is it True What They Say About Masons? The Methods of Anti-Masons. Silver Springs, MD: Masonic Service Association, third edition, revised, 2010.

Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons. v 1-4. Fulton, MO: Missouri Lodge of Research, 1957.

Dickie, John Prof. The Craft - How Freemasons Created the Modern World. PublicAffairs. NY. 2025.

Dumenil, Lynn. Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Hamill, John. The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry. UK: Aquarian Press, 1986.

Heaton, Ronald E. Masonic Membership of Our Founding Fathers, Bloomington, IL: Masonic Book Club, 1965.

Halleran, Michael A. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2010.

Hodapp, Christopher. Freemasons For Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2005.

_________________. Solomon’s Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers, Secrets of Washington DC. Berkeley CA: Ulysses Press, 2006.

Johnson, Melvin M. The Beginnings of Freemasonry in America. NY: George H. Doran Company, 1924.

Knoop, Douglas and Jones, Gwilym Peredur. The Scottish Mason and the Mason word. [A reprint of the Prestonian lecture for 1938.] Manchester, England, 1939.

Knoop, D., Jones, G. P., Hamer, D., The Early Masonic Catechisms. Sheffield, Sheffield University Press, England, 1943.

Morris, S. Brent. A Radical in the East. Ames, IA: Iowa Research Lodge No. 2, Siegler Printing and Publishing, 1994.

_____________. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Freemasonry. NY: Alpha Publishing, 2006.

Norton, Joseph Fort. The Builders. Richmond VA: Macoy Publishing, 1930.

Pound, Roscoe. Masonic Addresses and Writings of Roscoe Pound. NY: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1953.

Roberts, Allen E. The Craft and Its Symbols: Opening the Door to Masonic Symbols. Richmond, VA: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, Inc., 1974.

Smith, Thomas Webb. The Freemason's Monitor or Illustrations of Masonry. Albany, NY: Spencer and Webb, 1797. REPRINT

Stevenson, David. The Origins of Freemasonry – Scotland’s Century 1590 – 1710. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988
_____________. The First Freemasons – Scotland’s Early Lodges and their Members. Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1988.

Tabbert, Mark A. American Freemasons: Three Century of Building Communities. Lexington, MA: Scottish Rite Museum and Library, 2005.