(Wikipedia) The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who served in the A...

(LoC) On August 4, 1753, George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest rank in the Fraternity of Freemasonry, in his hometown of...

(LoC) In 1868, Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic issued General Order Number 11 designating May 30 as a ...

(Wikipedia) The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who served in the Ame...

(Baltimore Sun) Brian Witte, an Associated Press writer, recently revived an old debate that's been going on since Palm Sunday, April 9,...

(Maureen Dowd) ... how the ultimate elite private boys’ club has conspired to shape the nation’s capital and Western civilization ever since...

(LoC) ... Over the following decades, the Knights of Columbus, an international Roman Catholic fraternal benefit society, lobbied state legi...

(The Daily Beast) - ... A once-proud organization of Confederate history buffs and Civil War re-enactors that traditionally spent its money ...

(NPS) - The largest combined reunion of Civil War veterans ever held occurred at Gettysburg in 1913. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hosted...

(Cracked) - Oh, look, they made another Dan Brown movie at some point. Angels & Demons deals with the deep dark secret organization, The...

(RoDP) - When the Civil War ended, over 400 African American soldiers and sailors returned home to Kent County. A small handful of these men...

"Killed, by an accident on the Northern Central railroad, on the night of October 25th, 1872, John L. Curry, of Phoenix, Baltimore coun...

( LoC ) - This photo shows the fifty-year reunion of the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. William Munroe Graves recalls the ...

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" goes the poem; that cloud should have wandered over to Maryland, where it would have had plenty of ...

Middletown Methodist Church is now the Charity Lodge 134 A.F. & A. M. and Chapter 43 Order of the Eastern Star. I don't know if the ...

Sign reads: Built for the African American Community in 1874 as a school for children in the Loreley area and as home to this “benevolent” s...

"Theology sits by her window in powder and paint, courting the favour of philosophy" - Soren Kierkegaard Why did Presbyterians in ...

From the Wikipedia: "The Grange movement in the United States was a farmers' movement involving the affiliation of local farmers in...

I have never seen so many Civil War veterans buried in a small northeastern Maryland graveyard as this. The fact that they are mostly from t...