Cathy Coats’ book, “To Banish Forever: The story of the Knights, the Ho-Chunk, and the Ethnic Cleansing of Southern Minnesota” describes a brief time when a large group of Indigenous people lived in ...

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 ...

The line between “labor union” and “secret society” wasn’t always clear during the 19th century — and the Molly Maguires were sometimes considered a bit of both. Back home in Ireland, where rent rates ...

The Max documentary 'Bama Rush' sheds light on the secretive University of Alabama society, The Machine Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...

The story of how a stonemasons’ guild became the world's largest secret society is less about conspiracy and more about Enlightenment thinking. The title page of the Freemason Constitution at the ...

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had Osiris. “We meet in the name of Osiris.” With these words, solemnly intoned, ...

The history of Freemasons runs deep in the River Valley and across Arkansas, the South Sebastian County Historical Society was told last week.