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...

This past spring, I taught a digital humanities course on American Dead and Undead. The premise of the course was fairly simple: we...

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

My latest post on the Religion in American History Group Blog on a recent Language, Media, and Religion mini-conference and roundtable...