“Spiritualism attempted to align itself with ... Album Interest in the spirit world even crossed over into the burgeoning world of photography. Some photographers claimed to be able to capture ...

The heyday of spiritualism overlapped and intersected with the golden age of stage magic, and a new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum, “Conjuring the Spirit World,” explores the complex and ...

More than two centuries later, another purported conduit to the spirit world would gain ... his accounts of communication with the spiritual “other world.”…One evanescent influence in ...

Although she is less spiritual than her Airbending ancestor initially, she makes one of the most significant changes to the ...

(Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.) Shannon Taggart spent almost two decades researching Lily Dale, New York, a rural hamlet home to a robust spiritualist community.

Spiritualism became a huge movement in America ... new environment”—one with a supernatural flair. Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums is on display March 15-July 13.