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. 

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

 

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.  

 

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.