K is for Knights of the Golden Circle

"Psst, what's the password? OK, good. Time for the secret handshake. Great, now time for the, uh, super-secret kiss on the mouth...what? Too much?" This week Alisha and Will talk about super-cool civil-war era racists, the Knights of the Golden Circle. We're talking plans for a slave empire, Presidential assassination attempts, and of course long-lost gold on the latest episode of Enter the Rabbit Hole!

Sources:

Articles:

The Largest Knights of the Golden Circle Treasure Ever Found! (Jack Myer, Legends of America)

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/trs-kgctreasure/

Home Grown Terrorists (Beth Rowland, HistoryNet)

https://www.historynet.com/home-grown-terrorists.htm

Knights of the Golden Circle (Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell, Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas)

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/knights-of-the-golden-circle

Knights of the Golden Circle (Jay Longley and Colin Eby)

https://knightsofthegoldencircle.webs.com/

Lincoln’s Assassination (Ford’s Theater)

https://www.fords.org/lincolns-assassination/

American Civil War 101, An Overview of the War Between the States (Kennedy Hickman, Thought Co., Feb 2020)

https://www.thoughtco.com/american-civil-war-a-short-history-2360921

Did Knights of the Golden Circle bury treasures in the South? (Linda A.B. Davis, Southern Perspective, Nov 2019)

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/02/15/did-knights-golden-circle-bury-treasure-trove-south/2882340002/

A Brief Overview of the American Civil War, A Defining Time in Our Nation's History (James McPherson, American Battlefield Trust, Nov 2008)

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/brief-overview-american-civil-war

Treasure in the cellar brought more trouble than riches (Frederick N Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun Sep 2008)

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2008-09-07-0809050089-story.html

The Knights of the Golden Circle: A Filibustering Fantasy.” (Bridges, C. A., The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Jan. 1941)

www.jstor.org/stable/30235905

The First Secret Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Brad Meltzer and Jose Mensch, Time Magazine April 2020)

https://time.com/5829275/first-secret-plot-kill-lincoln/

Videos:

The Knights of the Golden Circle - Freemasonry and the KKK (Minerva Study Circle, Mar 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iETiO9b17dM&ab_channel=MinervaStudyCircle

Historical Overview of the Knights of the Golden Circle (Grand lodge of A.F. & A.M. of Minnesota, Jun 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IQUE1Q9Z0Q&ab_channel=GrandLodgeofA.F.%26A.M.ofMinnesota

The South's Plan To Conquer the Caribbean (And If It Happened) (Alternate History Hub, Mar 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjLZA6RWjo&ab_channel=AlternateHistoryHub

Knights Of The Golden Circle | Codes And Conspiracies (Discovery UK, Aug 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUSgppc__A&ab_channel=DiscoveryUK

The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History #18 (Crash Course US History, Jun 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=19&ab_channel=CrashCourse

The Civil War: Knights of the Golden Circle (David Keehn, C-Span, May 2013)

https://www.c-span.org/video/?312476-1/knights-golden-circle 

Audio:

Knights of the Golden Circle - Secret Society that Killed Lincoln? - 58 (Hysteria 51, Oct 2017)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/32mQn14Sah0OQLCrvDpuBC?si=10e27447304b4558