3: The Tables Are Tipping

Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus

This week, Jamie goes to a table tipping class — a Spiritualist tradition that uses tables to connect people with their dead. Elsewhere in the past, the Fox sisters go on tour, where the skeptics put increasing pressure on the teenagers to meet their hype.

Further Reading:

Talking to the Dead, Barbara Weisberg

Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances by Lisa Morton

The Road to Seneca Falls by Judith Wellman

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

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