Bio:

Adam Kendall is a California-based historian and Freemason. A past master of San Francisco’s Phoenix Lodge No. 144, he is also a full member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 (EC), the world’s oldest research lodge. He is the editor of the Scottish Rite Research Society’s annual journal, Heredom, and a past president of the Philalethes Society. His publications and lectures concern the more obscure relationships between American popular culture, social movements, and fraternal societies during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Prepared Topics:

“Masonic Libraries and Museums: What, Why, How?” – 45 Minutes

“Observing the Secret and Silent: Recovering Lost Narratives with Masonic Material Culture” – 45 Minutes

“The Scandals and Secret Rites of Benjamin Hyam: An American Masonic Story” – 45-60 Minutes

“The Ku Klux Klan, Freemasonry, and the American Fraternal Press” – 60 Minutes

“Klad in White Hoods and Aprons: Freemasonry and the Second Ku Klux Klan in California, 1921–1925” – 60 Minutes

“The Masonic Whitewash Committee: American Anti-Catholicism, Freemasonry, and the Knights of Columbus in the 1910s” – 60 Minutes

“The Mason’s Boy”: The Story of Walter Wilcox – 30 Minutes

“Myth and Conspiracy: The Strange Bedfellows of Masonic and Anti-Masonic Culture” – 45-60 Minutes

“The Almighty is the Organizer’: Freemasonry and Civic Space in the West” – 45-60 Minutes

Travel information: Any distance. Costs: flights, hotels, and minor incidentals (Uber/Lyft rides).

Websites:
https://www.facebook.com/fraternalhistorian/