Alphabetical
Bibliography
Back to Home Page
InvestiGator
Barrow, Logie. Independent
Spirits: Spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850 - 1910. London, England;
Boston, Mass.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Brandon, Ruth. The
Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1983.
Braude, Ann. Radical
Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America.
Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1989.
Carroll, Bret E. Spiritualism
in Antebellum America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Cox, Robert S. Body
and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Jackson, Herbert G. The
Spirit Rappers. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.
Kerr, Howard. Mediums,
and Spirit-Rappers, and Roaring Radicals; Spiritualism in American Literature,
1850-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.
Kerr, Howard and Charles L. Crow, eds. The
Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1983.
Moore, R. Laurence. In
Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Oppenheim, Janet. The
Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical
Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge (Cambridgeshire); New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Owen, Alex. The
Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Pike, Fredrick B. The
Politics of the Miraculous in Peru: Haya De La Torre and the Spiritualist
Tradition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
Sword, Helen. Ghostwriting
Modernism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Washington, Peter. Madame
Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought
Spiritualism to America. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
Back to
locations
Melvyl
Barrow, Logie. Independent
Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910. London, New York:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Basham, Diana. The
Trial of Woman: Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and
Society. New York: New York University Press, 1992.
Berry, Thomas E. (Thomas Edwin). Spiritualism in Tsarist Society and Literature. Baltimore, Md.:
Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1985.
Bloom, Clive. The
'Occult' Experience and the New Criticism: Daemonism, Sexuality, and the
Hidden in Literature. Sussex: Harvester Press; New Jersey: Barnes &
Noble, 1987, 1986.
Brandon, Ruth. The
Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1983.
Braude, Ann. Radical
Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Britten, Emma (Hardinge), Mrs. Nineteenth Century Miracles; Or, Spirits and Their Work in Every Country
of the Earth. A Complete Historical Compendium of the Great Movement Known as
“Modern Spiritualism.” New York: W. Britten, 1884.
Britten, Emma Hardinge. “America and Her Destiny.” Inspirational Discourse Given
Extemporaneously at Dodworth's Hall, New York, on Sunday Evening, August 25,
1861, Through Emma Hardinge by the Spirits. New York: R. M. Dewitt [1861].
________. Nineteenth
Century Miracles: Or, Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth.
New York: Arno Press, 1976.
Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes). The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age.
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus. The Spirit-Rapper: an Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1854.
Microform.
Burton, Jean. Heyday
of a Wizard: Daniel Home, the Medium. New York: Alfred a. Knopf, 1944.
Byrne, James. Naturalism
and Spiritualism: Six Discourses on Those Forms of Theistical Infidelity.
Preached Before the University of Dublin At the Donnellan Lecture by James
Byrne. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1856. Microform.
Clarke, Richard Frederick. Spiritualism: its Character and Results. London: The Catholic Truth
Society, 1892.
Cottom, Daniel. Abyss
of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991.
Cox, Robert S. Body
and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Dingwall, Eric John. Ghosts
and Spirits in the Ancient World, by E. J. Dingwall. London: K. Paul,
Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1930.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir. The History of Spiritualism. New York: Arno Press, 1975, 1926.
Edmonds, I. G. The
Girls Who Talked to Ghosts: The Story of Katie and Margaretta Fox. New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979.
Ferris, Alison, Curator. The Disembodied Spirit. Brunswick, Me.: Bowdoin College Museum of
Art, 2003.
Gilbert, R.A. The
Rise of Victorian Spiritualism. Introduced by R. A. Gilbert. London:
Routledge/Thoemmes, 2000.
Goldfarb, Russell M.and Clare R. Goldfarb. Spiritualism
and Nineteenth-Century Letters. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1978.
Grahl, Ursula. The
Wisdom in Fairy Tales; Foreword by A.P. Shepherd. London: New Knowledge
Books [1972].
Guthrie, John J. Jr., Phillip Charles Lucas, and Gary
Monroe, eds. Cassadaga: The South's
Oldest Spiritualist Community. Photography by Gary Monroe. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2000.
Hardy, Jean. A
Psychology With a Soul: Psychosynthesis in Evolutionary Context. London;
New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
Hazelgrove, Jenny. Spiritualism
and British Society Between the Wars. Manchester; New York: Manchester
University Press: Distributed Exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's, 2000.
Henderson, Janie. The
Story of Cassadaga. [United States]: Pisces [1994] (1996 Printing).
Holzer, Hans. The
Spirits of '76: a Psychic Inquiry Into the American Revolution.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976.
Houdini, Harry. Miracle
Mongers and Their Methods; a Complete Expose of the Modus Operandi of Fire
Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword
Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, etc., by Houdini. New York: E. P.
Dutton & Co., Inc. [1929].
Interior Causes
of the War: The Nation Demonized, and its President a Spirit-Rapper, by a
Citizen of Ohio. New York: M. Doolady, 1863. Microform.
Jackson, Herbert G. The
Spirit Rappers. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.
Jones, Kelvin I. Conan
Doyle and the Spirits: The Spiritualist Career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England: Aquarian Press, 1989.
Kerr, Howard. Mediums,
and Spirit-Rappers, and Roaring Radicals; Spiritualism in American Literature,
1850-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1972].
Kerr, Howard and Charles L. Crow, Eds. The
Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1983.
Kollar, Rene. Searching
for Raymond: Anglicanism, Spiritualism, and Bereavement Between the Two World
Wars. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000.
Kucich, John. Ghostly
Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press: University Press of
New England, 2004.
Lang, Andrew. The
Making of Religion. London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898.
________. The
Making of Religion . London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1898. Microform.
________. The
Making of Religion. London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1900.
________. The
Making of Religion. London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1909.
________. The
Making of Religion. New York: AMS Press, [1968].
Lease, Benjamin. Emily
Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1990.
Moore, R. Laurence (Robert Laurence). In
Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Morse, J. J. (James Johnson). A Spirit Interviewed: Being an Account of the Life and Mediuship of J.
J. Morse; With a Full Report of an Interview With His Chief Control Tien Sien
Tie. Also, as an Appendix, a Lecture End: Some Experience in Earth and Spirit
Life of the Speaking Control of J. J. Morse Known as Tien Sien Tie; as
Delivered by the Spirit; With Portraits of Medium and Spirit. London:
Thomas Olman Todd; Progressive Literature Agency, 1902.
Moses, William Stainton. Spirit-Identity (by M.A.,
Oxon). London: London Spiritualist Alliance, 1902.
National Spiritualist Association of Churches. Centennial
Book of Modern Spiritualism in
America. Chicago: The Association, [1948].
Navarro-Genie, Marco Aurelio. Augusto "Cesar" Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002.
Oppenheim, Janet. The
Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Owen, Alex. The
Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Peebles, J. M. (James Martin). Seers of the Ages: Embracing Spiritualism, Past and Present: Doctrines
Stated and Moral Tendencies Defined, by J.M. Peebles, M.D. Chicago:
Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903.
Petroff, Peter. Ante-Mortem
Depositions of P. Petroff. San Francisco, Press of T.J. Davis, 1895.
Pike, Fredrick B. The
Politics of the Miraculous in Peru: Haya De La Torre and the Spiritualist
Tradition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
Podmore, Frank. Modern
Spiritualism: a History and a Criticism. London: Methuen, 1902. Microform.
________. The
Newer Spiritualism. New York: Henry Holt, 1911.
Porter, Katherine H. Through
a Glass Darkly; Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. New York, Octagon
Books, 1972 [1958].
Porter, Roy, Helen Nicholson, and Bridget Bennett,
eds. Women, Madness, and Spiritualism.
London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
Priestley, Lee. Shalam:
Utopia on the Rio Grande, 1881-1907. El Paso, Tex.: Texas Western Press,
1988.
Ruskin, John. Christmas
Story: John Ruskin's Venetian Letters of 1876-1877 / Edited, and With an
Introductory Essay on Ruskin and the Spiritualists, His Quest for the Unseen
by Van Akin Burd. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated
University Presses, 1991.
Stemman, Ray. One
Hundred Years of Spiritualism: The Story of the Spiritualist Association of
Great Britain, 1872-1972. London: Spiritualist Association of Great
Britain, 1972.
Sword, Helen. Ghostwriting
Modernism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Thompson, Ernest. The
History of Modern Spiritualism. The Scientific Foundations of Modern
Spiritualism. Manchester [England]: Two Worlds Pub. Co., 1948.
Thurschwell, Pamela. Literature,
Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Tuttle, Hudson, 1836-1910. Arcana of Nature, by Hudson Tuttle; With an Introduction Giving an
Account of the Phenomenon of its Ship, and the "Superior Condition"
of Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Other Psychics, by Emmet
Densmore, M.D.(With Portraits and Illustrations). London: S. Sonnenschein
& Co.; New York: Stillman Publishing Co. [1909].
Vesme, C. De (Cesar). A History of Experimental Spiritualism. Translated from the French by
Stanley De Brath. London: Rider & Co., 1931-
Washington, Peter. Madame
Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought
Spiritualism to America. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, ed. Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, 2004.
Weisberg, Barbara. Talking
to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. [San
Francisco]: Harpersanfrancisco, 2004.
Westen, Robin. Channelers:
A New Age Directory. New York, NY: Putnam, 1988.
Wicker, Christine. Lily
Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead. [San Francisco]:
Harpersanfrancisco, 2003.
Wood, E. M. (Ezra Morgan). Schools for Spirits. Pittsburgh: Joseph Horner Book Co. [1903].
Back to
locations
America History &
Life
Albanese, Catherine L. “On the Matter of Spirit:
Andrew Jackson Davis and the Marriage of God and Nature.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 60, no. 1 (1992):
1-17.
Allamel, Frederic. “"Prophet" Royal
Robertson's Architectural Odyssey: Psycho-Spatial Drama in Three Acts.” Southern
Quarterly 39, no. 1-2 (2001): 152-168.
Ayers, Edward. “Science and the Seance.” Reviews
in American History 6, no. 3 (1978): 306-312.
Ballstadt, Carl; Peterman, Michael; and Hopkins,
Elizabeth. “`A Glorious Madness’: Susanna Moodie and the Spiritualist
Movement.” Journal of Canadian Studies
(Canada) 17, no. 4 (1982-83): 88-100.
Baum, L. Frank. “The Editor's Musings.” South
Dakota History 30, no. 1 (2000): 107-133.
Bednarowski, Mary Farrell. “Outside the Mainstream:
Woman's Religion and Women Religious Leaders in Nineteenth Century America.”
Journal of the American Academy of
Religion 48, no. 2 (1980): 207-231.
________. “Spiritualism in Wisconsin in the
Nineteenth Century.” Wisconsin
Magazine of History 59, no. 1 (1975): 2-19.
Boomhower, Ray E. “"The Last Enemy Is
Destroyed": May Wright Sewall and Neither Dead Nor Sleeping.” Traces
of Indiana and Midwestern History 14, no. 2 (2002): 26-33.
Bradley, James G. “The Mystery of Gifford Pinchot
and Laura Houghteling.” Pennsylvania
History 66, no. 2 (1999): 199-214.
Braude, Ann. “News From the Spiritual World: A
Checklist of American Spiritualist Periodicals, 1847-1900.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 99, no. 2 (1989):
399-462.
Braude, Stephen E. “Peirce On the Paranormal.” Transactions
of the Charles S. Peirce Society
34, no. 1 (1998): 203-224.
Brown, Dale Mackenzie. “Sweet Compulsion.” Preservation
55, no. 5 (2003): 52-54.
Brown, Edward M. “Neurology and Spiritualism in the
1870s.” Bulletin of the History of
Medicine 57, no. 4 (1983): 563-577.
Buescher, John B. “More Lurid Than Lucid: The
Spiritualist Invention of the Word Sexism.” Journal
of the American Academy of Religion 70, no. 3 (2002): 561-592.
Caroniti,
Dario. “Riforma Religiosa e Riforma Sociale nel Transcendentalismo
Americano.” (Religious reform and social reform in american
transcendentalism). Pensiero Politico (Italy) 31, no. 2 (1998): 336-355.
Carroll, Bret E. “Spiritualism and Community in
Antebellum America: The Mountain Cove Episode.” Communal Societies 12 (1992): 20-39.
________. “The Religious Construction of Masculinity
in Victorian America: The Male Mediumship of John Shoebridge Williams.” Religion
and American Culture 7, no. 1 (1997): 27-60.
Chandler, Robert J. “In the Van: Spiritualists as
Catalysts for the California Women's Suffrage Movement.” California History 73, no. 3 (1994): 188-201.
________. “Eliza Ann Hurd Dewolf: An Early Case for
Cross-Dressing.” Californians 11,
no. 2 (1993): 28-30.
Chapin, David. “The Fox Sisters and the Performance
of Mystery.” New York History 81,
no. 2 (2000): 156-188.
Chism, Stephen J. “`The Very Happiest Tiding’: Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's Correspondence with Arkansas Spiritualists.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 59, no. 3 (2000): 299-310.
Colbert, Charles. “A Critical Medium: James Jackson
Jarves's Vision of Art History.” American
Art 16, no. 1 (2002): 18-35.
________. “Harriet Hosmer and Spiritualism.” American
Art 10, no. 3 (1996): 28-49.
Cook, Ramsay. “Spiritualism, Science of the Earthly
Paradise.” Canadian Historical Review
(Canada) 65, no. 1 (1984): 1-27.
Cox, Robert S. “Vox Populi: Spiritualism and George
Washington's Postmortem Career.” Early
American Studies 1, no. 1 (2003): 230-272.
Davis, Rodney O. “Prudence Crandall, Spiritualism,
and Populist-Era Reform in
Kansas.” Kansas History 3, no. 4
(1980): 239-254.
Delp, Robert W. “American Spiritualism and Social
Reform, 1847-1900.” Northwest Ohio
Quarterly 44, no. 4 (1972): 85-99.
________. “Andrew Jackson Davis: Prophet of
American Spiritualism.” Journal of
American History 54, no. 1 (1967): 43-56.
________. “Andrew Jackson Davis's `Revelations,’
Harbinger of American Spiritualism.” New-York
Historical Society Quarterly 55, no. 3 (1971): 210-234.
________. “The Southern Press and the Rise of
American Spiritualism, 1847-1860.” Journal
of American Culture 7, no. 3 (1985): 88-95.
________. “A Spiritualist in Connecticut: Andrew
Jackson Davis, the Hartford Years, 1850-1854.” New
England Quarterly 53, no. 3 (1980): 345-362.
Douglas, Ann. “Heaven Our Home: Consolation
Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880.” American
Quarterly 26, no. 5 (1974): 496-515.
Elusche, Michael. “Antislavery and Spiritualism:
Myrtilla Miner and Her School.” New-York
Historical Society Quarterly 59, no. 2 (1975): 149-172.
Emery, Robert A. “Fragments of 19th-Century Folk
Belief in New York Court Reports.” New
York Folklore 15, no. 1-2 (1989): 111-118.
Fleming, John Vincent. “Browning's Yankee Medium.”
American Speech 39, no. 1 (1964):
26-32.
Foley, Marya. “Margaret Fuller's Transcendental
Vision.” Research Studies 46, no.
3 (1978): 183-196.
Frazier, Arthur H. “Henry Seybert and the Centennial
Clock and Bell at Independence Hall.” Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography 102, no. 1 (1978): 40-58.
Fryer, Judith. “The Other Victoria: `The Woodhull’
and Her Times.” Old Northwest 4,
no. 3 (1978): 219-240.
Gilbert, Bil. “In Good Spirits.” Smithsonian 33 [i.e., 32], no. 3 (2001): 22, 24, 26.
Gleason, Philip. “From Freelove to Catholicism: Dr.
and Mrs. Thomas L. Nichols at Yellow Springs.” Ohio
Historical Quarterly 70, no. 4 (1961): 283-307.
Grant, H. Roger. “Freethinkers and Spiritualists: A
Missouri Case Study.” Missouri
Historical Society Bulletin. 27, no. 4, pt. 1 (1971): 259-271.
Guthrie, John J., Jr. “Seeking the Sweet Spirit of
Harmony: Establishing a Spiritualist Community at Cassadaga, Florida,
1893-1933.” Florida Historical
Quarterly 77, no. 1 (1998): 1-38.
Hacking, Ian. “Telepathy: Origins of Randomization
in Experimental Design.” Isis 79,
no. 298 (1988): 427-451.
Herman, Daniel. “Midnight Disclosures.” Californians
11, no. 2 (1993): 34-36.
________. “Science, Seance and San Francisco: The
Spiritualists' Phantom Fandango.” Californians
11, no. 2 (1993): 18-21, 24-27, 30-33, 36-37.
________. “Women Mediums and Women's Rights.” Californians
11, no. 2 (1993): 22-23.
Homer, Michael W. “Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures
in Winnipeg.” Manitoba History
(Canada) no. 25 (1993): 9-16.
________. “`Recent Psychic Evidence’: The Visit of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Utah in 1923.” Utah
Historical Quarterly 52, no. 3 (1984): 264-274.
________. “Spiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts
on the Similarities and Differences.” Dialogue
27, no. 1 (1994): 171-191.
Horn, Jason G. “Figuring Freedom As Religious
Experience: Mark Twain, William James, and No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger.”
Arizona Quarterly 52, no. 1 (1996):
95-123.
How, Douglas. “One Man's Mackenzie King.” Beaver
(Canada) 78, no. 5 (1998): 31, 33-37.
Hower, Edward. “A Spirited Story of the Psychic and
the Colonel.” Smithsonian 26, no.
2 (1995): 110-127.
Huff, Robert A. “Anne Miller and the Geneva
Political Equality Club, 1897-1912.” New
York History 65, no. 4 (1984): 324-348.
Jasen, Patricia. “Mind, Medicine, and the Christian
Science Controversy in Canada, 1888-1910.” Journal
of Canadian Studies (Canada) 32, no. 4 (1998): 5-22.
Johnson, James P. “Ouija.” American Heritage 34, no. 2 (1983): 24-27.
Keyserlingk, Robert H. “Mackenzie King's
Spiritualism and his View of Hitler in 1939.” Journal
of Canadian Studies (Canada) 20, no. 4 (1985)-86): 26-44.
Kleinman, Mark L. “Searching for the `Inner
Light’: The Development of Henry A. Wallace's Experimental Spiritualism.” Annals
of Iowa 53, no. 3 (1994): 195-218.
Koupal, Nancy Tystad. “On the Road to Oz: L. Frank
Baum As Western Editor.” South Dakota
History 30, no. 1 (2000): 49-106.
Lachtman, Howard L. “When Conan Doyle Came to
California.” Pacific Historian 22,
no. 1 (1978): 26-37.
Lacombe, Michele. “Songs of the Open Road: Bon Echo,
Urban Utopians and the Cult of Nature.” Journal
of Canadian Studies (Canada) 33, no. 2 (1998): 152-167.
Lewarne, Charles P. “Vendovi Island: Father Divine's
`Peaceful Paradise of the Pacific.’” Pacific
Northwest Quarterly 75, no. 1 (1984): 2-12.
Linder, Robert D. “Wanted: Serious Historians of the
Occult.” Fides et Historia 6, no.
1 (1973): 60-70.
Martin, Ged. “Mackenzie King, the Medium and the
Messages.” British Journal of Canadian
Studies (Great Britain) 4, no. 1 (1989): 109-135.
Matusow, Allen J. “The Mind of B. O. Flower.” New
England Quarterly 34, no. 4 (1961): 492-509.
McCarthy, Jan. “Andrew Jackson Davis: The Don
Quixote of Spiritualism.” Southern
Speech Journal 30, no. 4 (1965): 308-316.
McClymer, John. “Who Is Mrs. Ada T.P. Foat? And Why
Should Historians Care?: An Historical Reading of Henry James' The
Bostonians.” Journal of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era 2, no. 2 (2003): 191-217.
McGarry, Molly. “Spectral Sexualities:
Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism, Moral Panics, and the Making of U.S.
Obscenity Law.” Journal of Women's
History 12, no. 2 (2000): 8-29.
McGinty, Brian. “A. Conan Doyle: Not So
Elementary.” Westways 74, no. 3
(1982): 40-43.
Meyerzu Erpen, Walter J. and Lowe, Joy. “The
Canadian Spiritualist Movement and Sources for Its Study.” Archivaria (Canada) no. 30 (1990): 71-84.
Moore, R. Laurence. “Spiritualism and Science:
Reflections On the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings.” American Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1972): 474-500.
________. “The Spiritualist Medium: A Study of
Female Professionalism in Victorian America.” American
Quarterly 27, no. 2 (1975): 200-221.
Morita, Sally. “Unseen (and Unappreciated) Matters:
Understanding the Reformatory Nature of 19th-Century Spiritualism.” American
Studies (Lawrence, Ks) 40, no. 3 (1999): 99-125.
Myers, Robert. “Accounting for the Expenditure of
Time: The 1861 Diary of Will M. T. Bartholomew.” Michigan
History 73, no. 1 (1989): 46-48.
Ocko, Stephanie. “Victoria Woodhull's Siege of New
York.” American History Illustrated
16, no. 1 (1981): 32-37.
Painter, Levinus K. “Quaker Settlements in Erie
County, New York.” Quaker History
55, no. 1 (1966): 24-37.
Peiss, Kathy. “Going Public: Women in
Nineteenth-Century Cultural History.” American
Literary History 3, no. 4 (1991): 817-828.
Prothero, Stephen. “From Spiritualism to Theosophy:
`Uplifting’ a Democratic Tradition.” Religion
and American Culture 3, no. 2 (1993): 197-216.
Robb, David. “Brahmins From Abroad: English
Expatriates and Spiritual Consciousness in Modern America.” American Studies 26, no. 2 (1985): 45-60.
Robbins, Peggy. “The Lincolns and Spiritualism.” Civil
War Times Illustrated 15, no. 5 (1976): 4-10, 46-47.
Robbins, Russell Hope. “The Rochester Rappings.” Dalhousie
Review (Canada) 45, no. 2 (1965): 153-164.
Roman, Reinaldo L. “Spiritists Versus
Spirit-Mongers: Julia Vazquez and the Struggle for Progress in 1920s Puerto
Rico.” Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 14, no. 2 (2002):
26-47.
Round, Phillip H. “Anne Bradstreet's Several Poems
and the Rise of Christian Belletrism in Eighteenth-Century New England.” Studies
in Puritan American Spirituality 7 (2001): 23-50.
Schaich, Warren L. and Hope, Diane S. “The Prison
Letters of Marti Sostre: Documents of Resistance.” Journal
of Black Studies 7, no. 3 (1977): 281-300.
Schoolcraft, John. “Rescue Work in the Invisible
World.” Michigan Quarterly Review
4, no. 1 (1965): 41-45.
Shortt, S. E. D. “Physicians and Psychics: The
Anglo-American Medical Response to Spiritualism, 1870-1890.” Journal
of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 39, no. 3 (1984): 339-355.
Smith, Elaine M. “Mary McLeod Bethune's `Last Will
and Testament’: A Legacy for Race Vindication.” Journal
of Negro History 81 no. 1-4 (1996): 105-122.
Sollors, Werner. “Dr. Benjamin Franklin's Celestial
Telegraph, or Indian Blessings to Gas-Lit American Drawing Rooms.” American
Quarterly 35, no. 5 (1983): 459-480.
Somerlott, Robert. “The Medium Had the Message: Mrs.
Piper and the Professors.” American
Heritage 22, no. 2 (1971): 33-37, 94-95.
St. Armand, Barton Levi. “Veiled Ladies: Dickinson,
Bettine, and Transcendantal Mediumship.” Studies
in the American Renaissance (1987): 1-51.
Stacey, C. P. “The Divine Mission: Mackenzie King
and Hitler.” Canadian Historical
Review (Canada) 61, no. 4 (1980): 502-512.
Stein, Stephen J. “Shaker Gift and Shaker Order: A
Study of Religious Tension in Nineteenth-Century America.” Communal Societies 10 (1990): 102-113.
Stephens, Jane. “May Wright Sewell: An Indiana
Reformer.” Indiana Magazine of History
78, no. 4 (1982): 273-295.
Toy, Eckard V., Jr. “Silver Shirts in the Northwest:
Politics, Prophecies, and Personalities in the 1930s.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 80, no. 4 (1989): 139-146.
Tuzov, Vasilii Sergeevich. “K Istorii Odnogo
Zabluzhdeniia v Nauke Vtoroi Poloviny XIX V.” (The story of one mistake in
science in the second half of the 19th century). Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia I Tekhniki (USSR), no. 2 (1985):
112-122.
Vanderbilt, Kermit. “`The Undiscovered Country’:
Howells' Version of American Pastoral.” American
Quarterly 17, no. 4 (1965): 634-655.
Wagner, Melinda Bollar. “Metaphysics in Midwestern
America.” Journal of Popular Culture
17, no. 3 (1983): 131-140.
Walker, Ronald W. “When the Spirits Did Abound:
Nineteenth-Century Utah's Encounter with Free-Thought Radicalism.” Utah
Historical Quarterly 50, no. 4 (1982): 304-324.
Weisberg, Barbara M. “They Spoke with the Dead.” American
Heritage 50, no. 5 (1999): 84-92.
Yeager, Jennifer A. “Opportunities and Limitations:
Female Spiritual Practice in Nineteenth-Century America.” Atq 7, no. 3 (1993): 217-228.
Zwelling, Shomer. “Spiritualist Perspectives on
Antebellum Experience.” Journal of
Psychohistory 10, no. 1 (1982): 3-25.
Back to
locations
California State Library
A Life Sketch of
Mrs. E. P. Thorndyke: Who Passed to the Higher Life September 5, 1906. n.p.,
[1906?].
Beighle, Nellie. Dr. Nellie Beighle, 2400 Pacific
Avenue, Corner of Fillmore, San Francisco, Cal. Circular. [San Francisco,
Calif.: N. Beighle, 1906?].
Britten, Emma (Hardinge), Mrs. Nineteenth Century Miracles; or, Spirits and Their Work in Every Country
of the Earth. A Complete Historical Compendium of the Great Movement Known as
“Modern Spiritualism”. New York: W. Britten, 1884.
Brown, John. Mediumistic
Experiences of John Brown, the Medium of the Rockies, 3d ed. San
Francisco, Calif.: Office of the Philosophical Journal, 1897.
California State Spiritualists' Association. Constitution
and By-Laws of the California State Spiritualists' Association: as Amended
September 6, 1908. [Los Angeles, Calif.: California State Spiritualists'
Association, 1908].
Crenshaw, James. Telephone
Between Worlds. With a foreword by Gustaf Strömberg. Los
Angeles: Borden Pub. Co. [1953, 1950].
Dameron, James Palatine. Spiritism, the Origin of All Religions. San Francisco, Calif.: by
the author, 1885.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir. The Case for Spirit Photography. New York: George H. Doran Company,
[1923].
________. The
Edge of the Unknown. New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
________. The
New Revelation. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1918].
________. Our
American Adventure. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923].
________. Our
Second American Adventure. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.
________. Pheneas
Speaks, Direct Spirit Communications in the Family Circle. New York:
George H. Doran Company, [1927].
________. The
Vital Message. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1919].
________. The
Wanderings of a Spiritualist. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1921].
Ernst, Bernard Morris Lee and Hereward Carrington. Houdini
and Conan Doyle; The Story of a Strange Friendship.
Ewer, Ferdinand C. (Ferdinand Cartwright). The
Eventful Nights of August 20th and 21st, 1854: and How Judge Edmonds Was
Hocussed; or, Fallibility of “Spiritualism” Exposed. New-York: S.
Hueston, 1855.
Fornell, Earl Wesley. The
Unhappy Medium: Spiritiualism and the Life of Margaret Fox. Austin:
University of Texas Press, [1964].
Home, D. D. (Daniel Dunglas). D. D. Home, His Life and Mission. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
& Co., Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1921.
________.
Lights and Shadows of
Spiritualism. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1877.
Houdini, Harry. A
Magician Among the Spirits. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1924.
Jacoby, Samuel A. The
Immortality of the Soul. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Austin Publishing Co.,
[1931].
Kerr, Howard. Mediums,
and Spirit-Rappers, and Roaring Radicals; Spiritualism in American Literature,
1850-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Press [1972]
Ladies' First Spiritual Aid Society. Constitution and By-Laws of the Ladies' First Spiritual Aid Society of
the City and County of San Francisco, California. [San Francisco, Calif.:
Ladies' First Spiritual Aid Society, 1900].
Lawton, George. The
Drama of Life After Death; a Study of the Spiritualist Religion. New York:
H. Holt and Company, [1932].
Leibee, Daniel. The
Bridegroom, a Pamphlet Containing the Latest Dispatch from the Heavenly
Telegraph to the Author, Daniel Leibee. San Francisco: The Pioneer Office,
1863.
Memoranda from
the Mark-P Seances: Part II: San Diego, Calif.: Released by Meade Layne,
[1947?].
Owen, James J. Spiritual
Fragments. San Francisco: The Rosenthal-Saalburg Co., 1890.
Owen, Robert Dale.
Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World, with Narrative Illustrations.
Philadelphia: B. Lippincott & Co., 1877.
________. The
Debatable Land Between This World and the Next, with Illustrative Narrations.
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1872.
Podmore, Frank. Modern
Spiritualism; a History and a Criticism. London: Methuen & Co., 1902.
Porter, Katherine H. Through
a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Lawrence: University
of Kansas Press, 1958.
Raupert, John Godfrey Ferdinand. Modern Spiritism; a Critical Examination of its Phenomena, Character,
and Teaching, in the Light of the Known Facts, 4th ed. St. Louis, Mo.:
Freiburn (Baden) B. Herder Book Co., 1920.
Richardson, John Emmett. The Great Known; or, What Science Knows of the Spiritual World.
Hollywood, Calif.: The Royal Press, 1924.
________. The
Great Psychological Crime; the Destructive Principle of Nature in Individual
Life, ed. Florence Huntley. Chicago: Indo-American Book Co., 1903.
Sadler, William Samuel. The Truth about Spiritualism. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.,
1923.
Savage, Minot Judson. Psychics:
Facts and Theories. Boston: Arena Pub. Co., 1893.
Sewall, May Wright. Neither
Dead Nor Sleeping. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1920].
Sherman, Loren Albert. Science of the Soul. A Scientific Demonstration of the Existence of the
Soul of Man as His Conscious Individuality Independently of the Physical
Organism; of the Continuity of Life and the Actuality of Spirit Return.
Port Huron, Mich.: The Sherman Company, 1895.
Smith, Harold. Messages
in Wood Received by Harold and Alma Smith. Wood Engravings. [Sacramento,
Calif.]: Har-Ma Press, 1980.
Society of Progressive Spiritualists. By-Laws
of the Society of Progressive Spiritualists. San Francisco: Society of
Progressive Spiritualists, 1896, 1910.
Swedenborg, Emanuel. The
Earths in Our Solar System, Which Are Called Planets and the Earths in the
Starry Heavens, Their Inhabitants and Spirits and Angels Thence from Things
Heard and Seen. Originally Published
in Latin at London, A. D. 1758. Rotch Edition. With an introduction by
Garrett P. Serviss. Boston: B. A. Whittemore, 1928.
Taylor, Clementine E'damie Edmond. Clementine E'damie Edmond: Record of Her Family and Events of Her Life.
This is the Story of Clementine E'damie Edmond (Taylor) Given as Nearly as
Possible in Her Own Words. [Berkeley, Calif.: Professional Press, 1931].
The California
Spiritual Messenger. [San Francisco, Calif.]: California State
Spiritualists Association, [1903].
The Flying Roll.
N.p.: Flying Roll Fellowship, n.d.
Thorndyke, E. P., Mrs. Astrea, or, Goddess of Justice. San Francisco: A. M. Slocum,
Printer, 1881.
Underhill, Ann Leah. The
Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism by A. Leah Underhill, of the Fox Family.
Rev. and Arranged by a Literary Friend. New York: T.R. Knox & Co.,
1885.
Underwood, N. I. A
Lecture on Spirit Communion: Being a Review of Rev. M. C. Brigg's Recent
Lectures On Spiritism. Sacramento, Calif.: J. H. Lewis & J. W. Haines,
1857
________. A
Lecture on the Deity, Communicated from the Spirit World, Through I. N.
Underwood, Medium. Delivered in Concert Hall, Sacramento, on Sunday Evening,
April 19th, 1857. Steno-Phonographically Reported by Charles A. Sumner.
Sacramento, Calif.: Jas. Anthony & Co., 1857.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism. Three Essays, 2nd. ed. London:
Trubner & Co., 1881.
West, S. H. (Simeon Henry). Life and Times of S. H. West: With an Appendix on Evolution, Religion
and Spiritual Phenomena. Leroy, Ill.: S.H. West; Bloomington, Ill.:
Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., 1908.
Wickland, Carl August. Thirty Years Among the Dead. Los Angeles: National Psychological
Institute, Inc., 1924.
William T. Stead Memorial Center, Chicago. God's
World ... a Treatise on Spiritualism Founded on Transcripts of Shorthand Notes
Taken Down, Over a Period of Five Years, in the Seance-Room of the William T.
Stead Memorial Center (a Religious Body Incorporated Under the Statutes of the
State of Illinois) Mrs. Cecil M. Cook, Medium and Pastor. Comp. and Written by
Lloyd Kenyon Jones. Chicago, Ill.: The William T. Stead Memorial Center,
[1919].
Back to
locations
California
State Library – Sutro
Beighle, Nellie. Book
of Knowledge, Psychic Facts. [San Francisco]: Hicks-Judd Company, 1911.
________. Book
of Knowledge, Psychic Facts. N. p.: Alliance Publishing Co., 1903.
Britten, Emma (Hardinge), Mrs. Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years' Record of the Communion
Between Earth and the World of Spirits. New York: by the author, 1870.
Davis, Andrew Jackson. The Principles of Nature, Her
Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind. London: Chapman, 1847.
de
Manterola, Vicente. El Satanismo, ó
Sea, la Cátedra de Satánas: Combatida desde la Cátedra del Espíritu Santo,
Refutación de los Errores de la Escuela Espiritista. Coatepec [Mex.]: Imprenta de Antonio Rebolledo, 1882.
Owen, Robert Dale. The
Debatable Land Between This World and the Next. London: Trübner, 1871.
Spiritualism or
Witchcraft. [Plano, Ill.: True Latter-Day Saints' Herald], [18--?].
Microform.
The Messenger of
the Aquarian Age. San Francisco, Calif.: Aurora Pub. Co., July 1925 –
Mar. 1926.
Todd, Benjamin. Spiritualism
Defended Against the Charge of Immorality. San Francisco, 1867.
Tuttle, Hudson. Aracana
of Spiritualism: A Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy. Boston:
Adams & Co., 1871.
Watson, Samuel. The
Clock Struck One, and Christian Spiritualist: Being a Synopsis of the
Investigations of Spirit Intercourse by an Episcopal Bishop, Three Ministers,
Five Doctors, and Others, at Memphis, Tenn., in 1855. Louisville, Ky.: J.
P. Morton, 1873.
Back to
locations