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Telegrams from the Dead
For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, senators, and scientists argued over the discoveries of the spirit world as revealed through mediums. Congress debated whether to provide $40,000 to research the feasibility of using the new wireless technology to reach the other world. But by 1880, as one spectacular fraud after another was revealed, the movement began to fade.
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Other episodes for this season
![FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/qr73TuBGAWtf3AqM8HSy5ZzigQF.jpg)
![FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/qr73TuBGAWtf3AqM8HSy5ZzigQF.jpg)
![FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/qr73TuBGAWtf3AqM8HSy5ZzigQF.jpg)
![FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/qr73TuBGAWtf3AqM8HSy5ZzigQF.jpg)
![Telegrams from the Dead](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/4rvY15tLZ3VnqUfBYKFXZGKBUBL.jpg)
![Midnight Ramble](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/w2fgAjALI300N8yNXuSrs5CtHd2.jpg)
![Battle of the Bulge](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/3eanw9fBRmr5uE1ZNtIzc8fQtNM.jpg)
![Freedom on My Mind](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)
![One Woman, One Vote (1)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/6995bIqHE7NQEmdomigDqxIAPNV.jpg)
![One Woman, One Vote (2)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/6995bIqHE7NQEmdomigDqxIAPNV.jpg)
![The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lbVUKKOgNMfyLaaCvAz43GjVZnC.jpg)
![The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lbVUKKOgNMfyLaaCvAz43GjVZnC.jpg)
![The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lbVUKKOgNMfyLaaCvAz43GjVZnC.jpg)
![The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lbVUKKOgNMfyLaaCvAz43GjVZnC.jpg)
![The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zkov9yReguoQo6EOIKSBrfKCQjO.jpg)