Author: Thomas Anthony ThacherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Discourse Commemorative of Professor James L. Kingsley
Author: Thomas Anthony ThacherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
Author: Frederick Adams VirkusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
History of Taunton, Massachusetts
Author: Samuel Hopkins EmeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taunton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
Author: New England Historic Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Annual Meeting
Author: Winchester Notes
Author: Fanny Winchester HotchkissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Winchester family
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Skulls and Keys
Author: David Alan RichardsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681775816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The mysterious, highly influential hidden world of Yale’s secret societies is revealed in a definitive and scholarly history. Secret societies have fundamentally shaped America’s cultural and political landscapes. In ways that are expected but never explicit, the bonds made through the most elite of secret societies have won members Pulitzer Prizes, governorships, and even presidencies. At the apex of these institutions stands Yale University and its rumored twenty-six secret societies. Tracing a history that has intrigued and enthralled for centuries, alluring the attention of such luminaries as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Skulls and Keys traces the history of Yale’s societies as they set the foundation for America’s future secret clubs and helped define the modern age of politics. But there is a progressive side to Yale’s secret societies that we rarely hear about, one that, in the cultural tumult of the nineteen-sixties, resulted in the election of people of color, women, and gay men, even in proportions beyond their percentages in the class. It’s a side that is often overlooked in favor of sensational legends of blood oaths and toe-curling conspiracies. Dave Richards, an alum of Yale, sheds some light on the lesser known stories of Yale’s secret societies. He takes us through the history from Phi Beta Kappa in the American Revolution (originally a social and drinking society) through Skull and Bones and its rivals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While there have been articles and books on some of those societies, there has never been a scholarly history of the system as a whole.