Historical
Links
A Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Victorian Reactions to the Spiritualist Phenomena
http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1989-0/gregory.htm
Article by Candace Gregory in Loyola University's Student Historical Journal.
American Spiritualism and German Sectarianism: A Comparative Study of the Societal Construction of G
http://www.ghi-dc.org/bulletin28S01/b28dillingerframe.html
in issue 28 of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute
Beyond the Grave
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/spirits/index.htm
A brief history of spirit photography sponsored by the American Philosophical Society Library.
Ephemera
Primary sources for the historical study of 19th century American Spiritualism.
In Search of the Fur Bat
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0015/lafarge.php
Village Voice article on spiritualist Thomas Welton Stanford (as in Stanford University) and the history of psychical research.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels about occultism
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/marxthh.htm
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Spiritualism and Theosophy (Blavatsky and Besant).
Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Spiritualism
http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/mesmersm.html
Victorian England's fascination with pseudo-sciences such as phrenology, mesmerism, and spiritualism as a cultural phenomena. By Paul Roach.
Religious Movements Homepage: Spiritualism
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Spiritsm.html
This Spiritualism Page is your gateway to accessing comprehensive web based as well as print resources about Spiritualism. It includes a profile of Spiritualism, comprehensive links with abstracts and a print bibliography.