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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Chart of American Freemasonry | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Purpose of the Book | |
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| Freemasonry's Symbols and Rituals | |
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| Freemasonry's Governance | |
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| Defining Freemasonry | |
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| Establishing Freemasonry, 1600-1835 | |
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| Enlightenment: Freemasonry in Britain and Europe, 1600-1800 | |
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| Judeo-Christian Traditions | |
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| Stonemasons' Guilds | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| King Solomon's Temple | |
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| Modern and Ancient Freemasonry, 1717-1813 | |
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| William Preston | |
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| European Freemasonry, 1730-1790 | |
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| Peaceable Citizens: Freemasonry in Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1730-1800 | |
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| Four American Masons | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| The United States | |
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| Federal America vs. State Grand Lodges | |
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| Act Honorably: Freemasonry and Federalist America, 1800-1835 | |
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| New Masonic Rites | |
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| Masonic Capstone | |
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| The Anti-Masonic Period, 1827-1835 | |
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| Building Freemasonry and American Community, 1835-1920 | |
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| The Foundation of Every Virtue: Masonic Self-Improvement, 1835-1870 | |
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| The Masonic Form of Self-improvement | |
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| We Have Seen His Star in the East: Order of the Eastern Star | |
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| Brother against Brother: The Civil War and Freemasonry | |
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| Safely Lodged: Secret Rituals and Freemasonry, 1870-1900 | |
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| The Golden Age of Fraternity | |
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| The Masonic Phenomenon of Dramatic Ritual | |
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| The York Rite | |
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| Brothers All | |
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| Fathers and Sons | |
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| Relieve the Distressed: Mutual Benefit in the Industrial Age, 1870-1900 | |
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| Masonic Charity | |
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| Freemasons in the Community of Relief | |
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| The Business of Fraternity | |
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| From Labor to Refreshment: Fraternal Fun, 1880-1910 | |
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| High Society in the Lodge | |
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| The Playgrounds of Freemasons | |
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| Animal Crackers | |
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| Operative as well as Speculative Masonry | |
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| Powers and Properties of Magnitudes: Tensions in the Lodge, 1900-1920 | |
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| Superficial Self-improvement | |
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| Ritual Innovations | |
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| Expanding Mutual Benefits | |
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| The Changing Role of Social Life | |
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| Freemasonry and the World | |
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| Adorning American Communities, 1920-2000 | |
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| Plain Dealing: The Rotarian Age and Freemasonry's New Personality, 1920-1941 | |
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| The Rotarian Age | |
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| Masonic Professional Networks | |
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| Prosperity and Patriotism | |
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| Fraternalism and the Great Depression | |
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| One Family: The Masonic Good Life, 1942-1965 | |
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| The Masonic Family | |
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| Masonic Youth Organizations | |
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| Freemasonry and World War II | |
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| Let the Good Times Roll | |
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| The Scottish Rite | |
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| They Are All Exhausted: Freemasons' Service for New Communities, 1966-2000 | |
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| American Service | |
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| Freemasonry and Community Service | |
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| Decline of American Freemasonry | |
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| The Quality of Mercy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Reading for Freemasonry and Fraternalism | |
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| Index | |
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| Photography Credits | |