From cryptic symbols on banknotes to invite-only global meetings, secret societies are often portrayed as hidden engines of ...

Founded in 1776 in Bavaria, the Illuminati began as a secret society promoting Enlightenment ideals — reason, secularism, and resistance to religious and political control. It was officially banned ...

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In the fall of 1875, a convention met in Raleigh, North Carolina, intending to gut the state's 1868 Reconstruction constitution. The convention's Democratic majority would have preferred to repeal the ...

Belief that a ‘corrupt elite is secretly running the world’ is one of the longest-running and most widespread conspiracy theories of our time ...

After Rory Gilmore arrived at Yale University on Gilmore Girls, viewers naturally wondered if she would run into any of the infamous Ivy League secret societies. The show had previously touched on the ...