Joan Chaconas, a Washington, DC historian and historian at the Mary Surratt House in Clinton, will speak on a popular 19th Century American topic - spirtualism. President and Mrs. Lincoln, as well as many other famous people of the time, dabbled in this belief - which purportedly enabled practicioners to communicate with those in the afterlife.
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