Laura Arnold Leibman

For early Americans and Europeans alike, cosmetics carried spiritual and moral messages. In this post I look to three examples of the use...

What can baths tell us, then, about the everyday lives and challenges women faced in early America? In this post, I move beyond an...

Why is it that Christian Fundamentalists have had better kitsch than Charedi Jews? Will this always be the case? To answer this question,...

Do you dress your religious beliefs? Some American religions (Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, to name a few) include doctrines about how...