Modern American Spiritualism

1869. A twenty years' record of the communion between the earth and the world of spirits. A compendious review of spiritualism in North America in the middle decades of the 19th century. Examples of chapters: The first spiritual telegraph with earth; Spiritualism in New York City and State; Spiritualism and spiritual mountebanks; Spiritualism in Cincinnati; Spiritualism in the South; Spiritualism during the Great American Civil War, 1860-5; Celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the "Rochester knockings," March 31st, 1868.