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Louisiana is infamous for its high incarceration rates. But that reputation didn’t happen overnight. A new book, "Prison Capital," explores the history of the issue, and efforts to push back on it ...

Get Vermont news sent to your inbox. Daily Digger is everything you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday-Saturday morning. Detail of the cover of the 1830 Vermont Anti-Masonic Almanac of ...

In the days following U.S. President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, posts on social media claimed that the Bible he used during his swearing-in ceremony is connected to the Masonic Order or the ...

Although now it is abandoned, the Grand Masonic Temple in Pine Bluff has had a storied history. The idea for the temple was conceived by Grand Master Moses A. Clark in 1902. The cornerstone was laid ...

Editor's note: This column is part of the Yakima Herald-Republic's observance of Black History Month. While churches like Mount Hope Baptist Church were anchors for Yakima’s Black community, social ...

A grand three-storey, red-brick building, the Masonic Temple at 986 Ouellette Ave. was designed by Windsor architect James Carlisle Pennington and constructed in 1921 and 1922. The cornerstone on the ...

In the Grand Lodge Room of Freemasons’ Hall, a stately Victorian building on Dublin’s Molesworth Street, the scene is set for an initiation ceremony. In a few hours, a blindfolded candidate wearing a ...

The Freemasons do not describe what goes on at their meetings, because, they say, ‘ to reveal what goes on in detail would spoil the enjoyment of the ceremonies for those who have yet to participate ...