Historical
Links
Ephemera
Primary sources for the historical study of 19th century American Spiritualism.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.