Henry W. Coil

Gives a concrete answer to many questions which occur to the uninitiated: What is Freemasonry? What are the Basic Differences between Freemasonry in the U.S. and Europe? What are the Branches of Freemasonry in the U.S.? and many more answers. One learns much of Antiquity in this story of Modern Masonry against the background of human history. Many critics who have read it from cover to cover agree that it is the BEST ONE-VOLUME History of Freemasonry.

If you have only one research volume on Freemasonry, the seriously Masonic scholar should have this one. All other dictionaries and encyclopedias that came before it are referenced here, and organized better than any other source.