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• Scottish Rite News Bulletin, by Scottish Rite Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the Supreme Council of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm at Its Annual Session, by Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm (partial serial archives)

• Official Proceedings of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, State of Georgia, at its Annual Communication, by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Georgia (partial serial archives)

• Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina, by Freemasons Grand Lodge of North Carolina (partial serial archives)

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• Christianity and American Freemasonry (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1958), by William J. Whalen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An English View of Freemasonry in America (Tacoma, WA: J.E. Cates, printer, 1898), by George William Speth, ed. by William H. Upton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Étude sur la Franc-Maçonnerie Améicaine: D'Après Différents Ouvarages Faisant Autorité, Tels que: "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite" du F. Pike, "Masonic Ritualist", "The Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry", du F. Mackey, etc, etc. (authorized French translation of the second American edition; Paris: Bureaux de la Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes, ca. 1908), by Arthur Preuss, trans. by A. Barrault (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men: A Treatise Delivered Before St. Cyprian Lodge, No. 13, June 24th, A.D. 1853, A.L. 5853 (Pittsburgh: W. S. Haven, 1853), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Study in American Freemasonry, Based Upon Pike's "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite." "Mackey's Masonic Ritualist," "The Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry," and Other American Masonic Standard Works (second edition; St. Louis: B. Herder, et al., 1908), ed. by Arthur Preuss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Proceedings of the United States Anti-Masonic Convention, Held at Philadelphia, September 11, 1830, by Antimasonic Party (page images at Google)

• Webb's Freemason's Monitor: Including the First Three Degrees, with the Funeral Service and Other Public Ceremonies; Together with Many Useful Forms (Cincinnati: C. Moore, 1865), by Thomas Smith Webb, ed. by James Fenton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Negro Masonry in the United States (second printing; New York: H. Emmerson, 1945), by Harold Van Buren Voorhis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of Freemasonry in South Carolina, from its Origin in the Year 1736 to the Present Time (Columbia, SC: South Carolinan Steam Power Press, 1861), by Albert Gallatin Mackey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Great Ban: A Study in Masonic Interpretation (Comanche, TX: The author, 1926), by L. B. Russell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Free Masonry and the War: Report of the Committee Under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia in Reference to our Relations as Masonic Bodies and as Masons, in the North and South, Growing Out of the Manner in which the Present War has been Prosecuted (Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, 1865), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Virginia
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Negro Freemasonry and Segregation: An Historical Study of Prejudice Against American Negroes as Freemasons, and the Position of Negro Freemasonry in the Masonic Fraternity (with one appendix from a still-copyrighted 1937 book omitted; rest is from Chicago: E. A. Cook Publications, 1957), by Donn A. Cass (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Light on a Dark Subject: Being a Critical Examination of Objections to the Legitimacy of the Masonry Existing Among the Negroes of America (Seattle: Pacific Seattle Mason, 1899), by William H. Upton (HTML at phoenixmasonry.org)
• Negro Masonry: A Committee Report Adopted June 15, 1898, by the M.W. Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons of Washington (reprinted from Proceedings of the Grand Lodge, 1898), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men: A Treatise Delivered Before St. Cyprian Lodge, No. 13, June 24th, A.D. 1853, A.L. 5853 (Pittsburgh: W. S. Haven, 1853), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prince Hall and His Followers: Being a Monograph on the Legitimacy of Negro Masonry (New York: The Crisis, c1914), by George W. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Ohio, 1849-1960: An Epoch in American Fraternalism (Wilberforce, OH: Central State College Press, c1961), by Charles H. Wesley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Handbook of the Association of Liberal Freemasons (Los Angeles, 1940), by Association of Liberal Freemasons (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Masonry in Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co, c1901), by William E. English (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Grand Excursion to New Orleans, Reed Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, Stationed at Dayton, Ohio, on Board the Steamer Thomas Sherlock (Dayton, OH: Journal Steam Job Printing Establishment, 1875), by Knights Templar Reed Commandery No. 6 (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Legislative Investigation Into Masonry: Being a Correct History of the Examination, Under Civil Oath, of More than Fifty Adhering and Seceding Masons, Before a Committee of the General Assembly of Rhode-Island (Boston: Office of the Boston Daily Advocate, 1832), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Hallett (page images at Google)

• The Virginia Text-Book: Containing a History of Masonic Grand Lodges, and the Constitution of Masonry, or Ahiman Rezon; Together With a Digest of the Laws, Rules and Regulations of the Grand Lodge of Virginia; Also, a Complete Compilation of the Illustrations of Masonic Work, as Drawn From Preston, Webb, Read and Others (third edition; Richmond, VA: Printed by J.E. Goode, 1866), by John Dove (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reprint of Proceedings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of the State of West Virginia, From the Organization in 1865 Until and Including the Annual Communication in 1881 (Wheeling, WV: Printed by order of the Grand Lodge, 1882), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of West Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Northern Light (magazine of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction; 1970-) (full serial archives)
• The New Age (Scottish Rite Masonic publication, 1904-1989) (partial serial archives)
• Scottish Rite Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Builder (Masonic journal, 1915-1930) (full serial archives)
• The American Freemason (Storm Lake, IA, 1909-1919) (partial serial archives)
• Journal für Freymaurer (in German; 1784-1787) (some volumes may be reprints; partial serial archives)

• The Alberta Freemason (with some issues of predecessor Grand Lodge Bulletin (-2000); issues online 1998-) (partial serial archives)

• Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (partial serial archives)