MASONIC AMERICANA Volumes 1 & 2

MASONIC AMERICANA Volumes I & II Issued by Knights Templar Magazine Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, U. S. A. Volume I Fifteenth Printing – May 1985 Volume II First Printing (10,000 copies) - May 1985 VOLUME I CONTENTS: MASONIC PRESIDENTS: LEADERS OF INDEPENDENCE: EARLY FRATERNAL LEADRS: ERA OF EXPANSION: MASONIC AMERICAN HISTORY: Whence Came American Templary? The Lodge of Washington; Masonry in New Orleans; Masonry in New Mexico. THE FLAG: Flag Day; The Flag of Liberty; In Praise of Old Glory; More Flag Waving Needed; The Flag. BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS, STATUES: George Washington Masonic National Memorial; The Liberty Bell; A Daughter of Independence; Known but to God; Landmarks of Americana; The Long Gray Line. TWENTIETH CENTURY MASONS: William Jennings Bryan, Man of Conviction; Man of Action; Black Jack Pershing; Life and Times of Thomas Marshall; Brother Richard E. Byrd; Brother Will Rogers; The Defender of St. Vith; Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.; From the Days of King Arthur; Freemasons in the Space Age; Conquest of the Moon. DEDICATION AND INSPIRATION: America Approaching 1976; Hold on to Your Constitution! Washington at Valley Forge; Daughters of the American Revolution. INDEX VOLUME II CONTENTS: Forward: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS: IN GOD WE TRUST General Washington’s Vision; Letter to Washington; The Incredible Experiment; Freedom’s Roots. THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS: THE RISE OF FREEMASONRY The Craft and Social Activism; Colonial Military Lodges of the Revolution; Lodge “Glittering Star” No. 322; The Early Years in America; Benjamin Hurd, Jr. (1750-1821); William Gibbes Hunt (1791-1833); Albert Pike (1813-1891); “The Mason’s Holy House”. Freemasonry: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow; Our Templar Heritage in the United States. THE STATESMEN: John Hancock; First Governor of the Northwest Territory; Legendary Spark for Memorial Day; John Cabell Breckinridge; “Let Every American”; Ely Samuel Parker; Sir Knight Garret A. Hobart; “Let Freedom Ring”; President Harding’s Last Address. THE HEROS OF THE 18th CENTURY: The Shot Heard ‘ Round the World; The Boston Tea Party; Why Did Washington Cross the Delaware? Baron de Kalb, An American Hero; Father of the United States Navy; Thomas Procter (1739-1806); Commander Preble and His Boys; Commodore Abraham Whipple; Commodore Samuel Tucker; Brother James McHenry Remembered, Surrender at Yorktown. WESTWARD HO!: THE HEROS OF THE 19th AND 20th CENTURIES: Brother Winfield Scott; A Masonic Incident; David Glasgow Farragut; Winfield Scott Hancock, (1824-1886); General John Gregg, C. S. A. and General George B. McClellan, U. S. A.; “Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier”; Sir Galahad of Southern Chivalry; Captain Eddie Rickenbacker; John A. LeJeune, U. S. M. C.; Remembrances of Wilber M. Brucker; Love of Country; Above and Beyond. THE HUMANITARIANS: THE ARTISANS: Brother Charles Wilson Peale; James Hoban; Amos Doolittle (1754-1832); Man-The Builder; Mr. Key’s Poem; William W. Seaton, Printer to Congress; The Real Macoy; “A Prayer” and “The Builders”; And the Bands Played On; The Gentle Man From Detroit; “Knights Templar”; The Man on the Mountaintop; Brother Norman William Allen; Long Live the King; Play a Simple Melody. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: SYMBOLS OF A FREE LAND: The Stars and Stripes; The Founder of Flag Day; On the Anniversary of the Birth of Our Flag; Happy Birthday, Uncle Sam; And Her Name: “Mother of Exiles”; “The New Colossus”; The Great Seal of the United States; Electing the President. TO INSPIRE AND REMEMBER: The American Legion; My Land and Yours; Keeping the Springs of Masonry Flowing; “The Builder”; A Revival of Spirit; The Onward Sweep of America. Index: CONDITION: These two books are paperbacks. Exterior: Volume II has a stain on the back and side cover. There are no stains on Volume I. Interior: Both books are clean on the inside, The writing is clear on both volumes with no notes written on any page. …