Why Spiritualism Exploded In 19th Century America

Send us Fan Mail The story of American spiritualism is not just candlelit parlors and spooky folklore. It’s a pressure valve for mass grief, a stage for women’s voices, and a battleground over who gets to claim truth when the subject is death itself. We dig into why spiritualism explodes in the United States in the late 1800s, starting with the Fox sisters and spreading into a mainstream culture of séances, public demonstrations, and organized spiritualist movements. We also get practical an...