Since the mid- nineteenth century, denizens of the American occult had foretold a “New Age” in education, cooperation, and inner awakening.

He also leads "Occult New York Walking Tours," which visits sites of the spiritual avant-garde movement that ultimately swept the nation in the early 19th century.

In the latter part of the 19th century, a range of powerful new visual technologies were developed that used the intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and ...

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In the 19th century, spiritualism, in particular, belonged to a constellation of interests that included abolition, women’s rights, socialism, temperance, and other social reforms.

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look into the region’s maritime trade history.

A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic Sea.

Horowitz also cannily observes that 20th-century positive thinkers such as Myrtle and Charles Fillmore, the founders of the Unity Church, were pioneers of mass marketing methods that have in time ...

High society circles in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century were fascinated with seances and efforts to contact the dead. There was one problem, however. This macabre movement in fact had ...

Tarot is a cultural chameleon. It started as a courtly card game in 15th-century Italy, used in recreational settings and informed by the humanist culture of the period. It wasn’t until the 18th and ...

Victor von Frankenstein was the iconic mad scientist of the 19th century, but he had competition for that role. Here is the bizarre and uncanny history of ...

This makeover suggests nothing so much as a Bonnaroo spin on the late-nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century phenomenon known as “spirit photography,” for which cameramen in cahoots with ...