The authors both wrote novels about secret societies, and the similarities don't end there. They sat down to talk about why ...

The ivy-covered walls of America's oldest universities hold more than lecture halls and libraries. They conceal secrets. For centuries, exclusive and clandestine organizations have operated just ...

Chest lid with Masonic painting (c. 1825–45), maker unknown, paint on pine, 22.25 x 37.25 x 2 5/8 inches (photo by José Andrés Ramírez, courtesy of American Folk Art Museum) (click to enlarge) What is ...

Currier & Ives,, “Friendship, Love and Truth” (1874, New York), hand-colored lithograph (courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, all images via University of Texas Press) Almost ...

You may have heard of secret societies—shadowy agents, power brokers, elites operating behind closed doors. But all of them, ...

Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her knees hugged to her chest, eight-year-old Musu Kamara sits in a corrugated shack in Sierra Leone's capital waiting for her initiation into a secret society.

In FBI: International Season 4, Episode 11, "Veritas Fidelis," the team heads to the UK, where a young American woman is found dead at a prestigious university. The team has a connection to the place ...