Vanessa Armstrong

“Spectropia” demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead, revealing the “absurd follies of Spiritualism.”

A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination.

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953.

Rare footage of the woman magician's act captures her magnetic stage presence and range of tricks.