The Certificate of Literature Award
John Black Vrooman, FPS, described the Philalethes Society's Certificate of Literature Award as ”a just reward for literary and Masonic endeavor…certified on the basis of worth, human interest and research.“
| year | author | article |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | James R. Case, FPS | The Hamilton Bi-Centennial |
| 1957 | Allen Cabaniss, MPS | Importance of the Fellow Craft's Degree |
| 1958 | Ronald E. Heaton, FPS | Notes on a List of Some Conjectured American Freemasons |
| 1959 | Roscoe Pound, FPS | What Is Law? |
| 1960 | William I. Cummings, FPS | Masonic Background |
| 1961 | Allen E. Roberts, FPS | Masonry Under Two Flags |
| 1962 | Norman C. Dutt, FPS | The Lewis Mason |
| 1963 | Andrew J. White, FPS | Let‘s Take A New Look At Masonic Funerals |
| 1965 | Alphonse Cerza, FPS | Recommended Masonic Reading |
| 1966 | Ross Hepburn, FPS | Freemasonry in New Zealand |
| 1968 | Harold V. B. Voorhis, FPS | Two Theories to Look Into |
| 1970 | Franklin J. Anderson, FPS | The Soul of Freemasonry |
| 1971 | Eugene S. Hopp, FPS | Defining Freemasonry: Tradition Becomes Practical |
| 1973 | Dwight L. Smith, FPS | Of Landmarks and Cuspidors |
| 1974 | John Nocas, FPS | Josephus: The Great Jewish Historian |
| 1975 | Alex Horne, FPS | Prince Edwin, A.D. 926: Our First "Speculative Mason" |
| 1976 | Mervin B. Hogan, FPS | The Confrontation of G.M. Abraham Jonas and John Cook Bennett at Nauvoo |
| 1978 | Louis C. King, FPS | How A Cathedral Was Built |
| 1979 | Charles Cuthrie, FPS | Rob Morris and The Conservators in Kentucky |
| 1980 | John Mauk Hilliard, FPS | The Lodge as Primary Community |
| 1981 | Richard H. Sands, FPS | Physicists, The Royal Society, and Freemasonry |
| 1982 | Leslie L. Walker, Jr., MPS | Did Shakespeare Create Masonic Ritual? |
| 1983 | Keith Arrington, FPS | Iowa's Masonic Magazines: The Battling Editors |
| 1984 | Wallace McLeod, FPS | Why Saint Alban? |
| 1985 | Louis L. Williams, FPS | Sir Christopher Wren |
| 1986 | Leslie L. Walker, Jr., MPS | Of Oaths, Vows, and Obligations |
| 1987 | Robin L. Carr, MPS | Peter Shaffer‘s Amadeus and Freemasonry; Goethe and the Universal Man |
| 1988 | Joseph E. Bennett, FPS | |
| 1989 | Robert C. Barnard, MPS | The Mystery of the Death of Meriwether Lewis |
| 1990 | George H.T. French, MPS | |
| 1991 | David Crockett, MPS | The Evolution of Masonic Thought |
| 1992 | Melvyn Friendly, MPS | The Masonic Connection With the Oregon Constitution |
| 1993 | John M. Boersma, MPS | Brother Mozart |
| 1994 | Nelson C. King, FPS | |
| 1995 | Herbert G. Gardiner, MPS | The Glory and Travail of a Bygone Era |
| 1996 | Bob Ellenwood, MPS | |
| 1997 | Alain Bernheim, MPS | |
| 1998 | S. Brent Morris, FPS | |
| 1999 | Robert L. Uzzel, MPS | |
| 2000 | William E. Parker, MPS | |
| 2002 | W. Preston Vaughn, MPS | The Masonic Home and School of Texas, 1920–1940 |
| 2003 | Milo D. Dailey IV, MPS | |
| 2004 | John L. Cooper III, FPS | Freemasonry and Societal Change |
| 2006 | Terry L. Tilton, FPS | A Minnesota Tale |
| 2008 | Phillip Jack Buta, FPS | The God Conspiracy |
| 2009 | Robert G. Davis, FPS | William Preston: Architect of the American Craft Ritual |
| 2010 | Thomas D. Worrel, MPS | The Art of Memory and the Spiritual Practice of the Seven Liberal Arts |
| 2012 | Michael A. Halleran, FPS | “Hold On, Boys…” Freemasonry in the Border War, 1854–1865 |
| 2013 | Peter Paul Fuchs, MPS | Labor Hidden and Exposed: Freemasonry’s Midwifery of Religious Freedom |
| 2016 | Jedediah French, MPS | Rebuilding the Temple: The Work of Jean-Bapiste Willermoz |
| 2019 | Walter M. Macdougall, FPS | The Masonic Voyage Beyond: Bonded by Vision |