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Barbara M. Weisberg (born 1946) is an American historian, author, and television producer. In the 1980s, she co-created the television series Charles in Charge. She has published multiple historical nonfiction books, including Strong Passions, published in 2024.
The author of Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism, a biography of the two founders of Modern Spiritualism, Weisberg has also written four children’s books and many articles on science and history for young readers.
Feb 21, 2024 · In “Strong Passions,” the historian Barbara Weisberg tells the story of an explosive, lurid 1860s case that still resonates today.
- Liesl Schillinger
Barbara Weisberg. Norton, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-53152-7. Historian Weisberg ( Talking to the Dead) digs through newspaper archives and legal libraries to deliver this captivating...
Jan 1, 2004 · Barbara Weisberg. A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement—and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery.
