Ancient Noble Order of Gormogons
A short-lived rival to Freemasonry, the Ancient Noble Order of Gormogons surfaced in the fall of 1724, announcing itself to the world in a London…
Author: Lux Ferre
ANCIENT MYSTICAL ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS [AMORC]
The most successful of American Rosicrucian orders, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis was founded in 1925 in Tampa, Florida by Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939),…
ANCIENT AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL ORDER OF DRUIDS [AAOD]
A short-lived but influential British Druid order, the AAOD was founded in 1874 by Robert Wentworth Little (1840–78), an avid Freemason who also founded the…
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE [AASR]
The most influential of the concordant bodies of Freemasonry in the United States and one of the most important Masonic rites worldwide, the Ancient and…
ANARCHISM
A major political force in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, anarchism was communism’s most important rival in the struggle to define and control the…
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The successful insurgency of American colonists against British rule between 1775 and 1782 has been cited far more rarely by historical conspiracy theorists as an…
AMERICAN PROTECTIVE LEAGUE [APL]
A secret society organized and operated by the US government, the American Protective League was founded in 1917 after the American declaration of war on…
AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION [APA]
Founded at Clinton, Iowa in 1887, the APA was an anti-Catholic secret society motivated by fears that the Roman Catholic Church sought to dominate American…
AMERICAN ORDER OF CLANSMEN
A competitor to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Order of Clansmen was founded in San Francisco in 1915 as a “patriotic,…
AMERICA, DISCOVERY OF
Since Christopher Columbus sighted a small island in the West Indies and mistook it for part of Asia, the possibility that America was visited by…
