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Competing accounts of Freemasonry as a fraternal civic network versus a covert coordinating layer among political and economic officeholders.
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- 1841 · eventMuseum of Freemasonry institutional origins at Freemasons' Hall
- 1866 · document_releaseDuncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor published
- 1870 · amplificationCatholic and nationalist critiques expand international debate
- 1880 · document_releaseGould's multi-volume History of Freemasonry circulated
- 1915 · eventGastvrijheid Lodge No. 113 founding officers recorded
- 1950 · popularizationPostwar conspiracy literature folds Freemasonry into elite-control maps
- 1968 · document_releasePoncins' Freemasonry and the Vatican published
- 1995 · mutationInternet lists of famous Masons circulate widely
- 2010 · investigationGrand lodge transparency pages expand public self-presentation