When We Spoke to the Dead

Image via The Spectacle of Illusion, published by D.A.P. Wellcome Library, London. A young girl operating a planchette. Throughout American history, where are women in the public spaces? I don’t mean that in some fancy academic sense. Literally, where are the women? In America, there are over five thousand roads named for George Washington, which makes sense; as a Founding Father and the first…