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Secret Societies

Your search for information on Secret Societies can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. Suggested subject headings include:

Societies

Conspiracies

Secret societies

Illuminati

Greek letter societies

Freemasons

Reference Books that may be useful in your research:

 

The International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies

REF HS119 .A94 1996

Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology

REF BF1407 .E52 2001

A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry

REF HS375 .W3 1994

The Encyclopedia of Religion

REF BL31 .E46 1986

Encyclopedia of Associations

REF AS22 .E5

 

Selected Circulating Books that may be useful in your research:

 

Daraul, Arkon

Secret Societies, Yesterday and Today

HS125 .D3

George, John

American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others

HS2325 .G46 1996

Dillon, Richard H.

The Hatchet Men: The Story of the Tong

Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown

F869.S3 D585

Landes, Ruth

Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin

E99.C6 L28 1968

Posner, Gerald L.

Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies—the New Mafia

HV6453.H75 P67 1998

  

Online Journal and Reference Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the online indexes listed below. They are available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html. Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books. The Library also has print indexes that may be used to find older articles.

EbscoHost Newsbank
Ethnic Newswatch Project Muse
GaleNet Discovering Collection  

 

See the Library Internet Resources handout for a complete description of our online resources.

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you find on the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Catholic Encyclopedia: Secret Societies

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14071b.htm

 

Greek Pages: Fraternities and Sororities on the Web

http://www.greekpages.com/

 

The Independent Order of Odd-Fellows

http://www.ioof.org/

 

A Page about Freemasonry

http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/www/Masons/

 

The Order of Knights of Pythias

http://www.pythias.org/

 

The Order of Skull and Bones

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm

 

Secret Societies and Conspiracies

http://www.meta-religion.com/Secret_societies/secret_societies.htm

 

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