Add to ORKGThis study investigates the relationship between The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and the 18th-century Masonic fraternity. Franklin enjoyed a 52-year Masonic career and strongly influenced American Freemasonry with the publication of The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1734). Yet he did not write about or mention the fraternity by name in The Autobiography. Is there a Masonic subtext in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin? Information drawn from The Autobiography and fraternal and historical sources suggests that Franklin’s remembrances are consistent with Masonic teachings, and that he lived his life in a manner consistent with those teachings. The study argues that there are three important parallels between The Autobiography a...
It was not until after the mid-eighteenth century that the masonic lodges in Edinburgh became common...
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombi...
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombi...
Abstract From its inception in 1733, American freemasonry represented a fair portion of American soc...
A global history of the world’s most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, write...
Freemasonry in the first few decades of the United States’ existence held a vaunted place in society...
This is an online electronic edition of the the first Masonic book printed in America, which was pro...
Historians, in considering Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, have tended to define it in politi...
© 1987 Margaret ChapmanFreemasonry has had a controversial image ever since the first of the modern ...
The Enlightenment is known as a time of great advances in science, political theory and individual r...
Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet.Filmed;No. 14 on a reel of 14 titles.Master negative: 94-82085-14
Throughout the course of human history, a substantial number of organizations with religious or poli...
This work “America in apron. A history of American Freemasonry” simply relates the past to the prese...
Modern freemasonry emerged in Britain during the eighteenth century, combining earlier stonemason cu...
Modern Freemasonry emerged in the early eighteenth-century as part of European Enlightenment culture...
It was not until after the mid-eighteenth century that the masonic lodges in Edinburgh became common...
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombi...
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombi...
Abstract From its inception in 1733, American freemasonry represented a fair portion of American soc...
A global history of the world’s most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, write...
Freemasonry in the first few decades of the United States’ existence held a vaunted place in society...
This is an online electronic edition of the the first Masonic book printed in America, which was pro...
Historians, in considering Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, have tended to define it in politi...
© 1987 Margaret ChapmanFreemasonry has had a controversial image ever since the first of the modern ...
The Enlightenment is known as a time of great advances in science, political theory and individual r...
Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet.Filmed;No. 14 on a reel of 14 titles.Master negative: 94-82085-14
Throughout the course of human history, a substantial number of organizations with religious or poli...
This work “America in apron. A history of American Freemasonry” simply relates the past to the prese...
Modern freemasonry emerged in Britain during the eighteenth century, combining earlier stonemason cu...
Modern Freemasonry emerged in the early eighteenth-century as part of European Enlightenment culture...
It was not until after the mid-eighteenth century that the masonic lodges in Edinburgh became common...
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombi...
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombi...