Secret Societies: a very short history
The International Institute of Social History presents "A Very Short History of Secret Societies" ([url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/secretsocieties/[/url]). It consists of a general introduction and brief notes on the Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati, Carbonari, Burschenschaften, the mysterious Great Firmament, societies in France, Germany, Russia, the USA and Asia, and older precursors.
The texts are enriched by twelve illustrations from the IISH collections: