American Freemasonry: Its Revolutionary History and Challenging Future

This book explores the American Masonic system, examining its history, racial split, enrollment decline, and revitalization efforts. Freemasonry reflects its society, and North American Freemasonry, influenced by early American political leaders, differs from European lodges. Alain de Keghel, a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite Research Society, offers a view of American Freemasonry’s history from the colonial era to the Revolutionary War and beyond.

The author investigates the racial split in American Freemasonry, where black lodges exist alongside white and white lodges exclude women. He examines how American Freemasonry has remained deeply religious and prohibits discussions of religious or social issues in its lodges, unlike some French Freemasonry branches that removed belief in God as a prerequisite for membership in 1877 and operate as philosophical debating societies.

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