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Alicia Puglionesi

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“Pajamas from Spirit Land”: Searching for William James

After the passing of William James, mediums across the US began receiving messages from the late Harvard professor.

by Alicia Puglionesi via The Public Domain Review on February 23, 2022
The 19th Century ‘Show Caves’ That Became America’s First Tourist Traps

Novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia.

by Alicia Puglionesi via Atlas Obscura on March 2, 2016
Proving It: The American Provers’ Union Documents Certain Ill Effects

The history of "proving", the practice of auto-experimentation that forms the cornerstone of homeopathic medicine.

by Alicia Puglionesi via The Public Domain Review on September 4, 2013

Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science

Alicia Puglionesi

In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire

Alicia Puglionesi

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‘View of Grave Creek Mound’; engraving by Ebenezer Mathers, 1839.

The Plunder and the Pity

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2024

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