American freemasonry: its revolutionary history and challenging future

Foreword by Margaret C. Jacob, Ph.D. Foreword by Arturo de Hoyos, 33 Degrees PREFACE Interpreting American Freemasonry throughout Time 1 Freemasonry in Pioneer America 2 At the Order's Origins The United Lodge of England 3 The American Spiritual Infusion and Freemasonry 4 The Masonic Tradition The Specifically American Features of Rituals and Institutions 5 Black American Freemasonry 6 The Charity of an Order Challenged by Change 7 American Masonry Confronted by the Initiation of Women 8 Relations and Ruptures with French Freemasonry 9 French Freemasonry in North America, Yesterday and Today 10 A Little American Masonic Perspective in a Changing World 11 Is the Overall Decline in Membership the Herald of Profound Changes? AFTERWORD Freemasonry in North America by John L. Cooper III Appendices APPENDIX I Statistical Studies of the Evolution of the Membership of American and Canadian Grand Lodges APPENDIX II American Demographic Studies U.S. Census Bureau and the Washington Post APPENDIX III Speech on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Lighting of the Fires (May 3, 2009) Bo  of Bro  Alain de Keghel, Former Venerable Master of the W  L  La Fayette 89, Or  of Washington APPENDIX IV Sacramento Seminar of 2002, Organized by the Grand Lodge of California APPENDIX V Geneva Declaration (May 7, 2005) APPENDIX VI Declaration of Basel (June 10, 2012) APPENDIX VII Declaration of Vienna (January 29, 2014) APPENDIX VIII Extracts from the Report of the Commission on Information for Recognition of the American Grand Lodges at the Conference of Baltimore in 2014 APPENDIX IX Letter of the Sovereign Grand Commander Alain de Keghel to the Northern Jurisdiction APPENDIX X Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the George Washington Union APPENDIX XI George Washington Union A Progressive American Obedience Notes Bibliography Index of Names Subject Index