Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The work s overarching concern is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs, a theme developed across three significant periods of membership: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter places Freemasonry into historical context, revealing its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the...