leibmanOct 15, 20141 minSpiritual Makeup: Religion and Cosmetics (Religion in American History Blog Post)For early Americans and Europeans alike, cosmetics carried spiritual and moral messages. In this post I look to three examples of the use...
leibmanOct 15, 20141 minWhen Women Don't Marry: Single Blessedness and the Shidduch Crisis (Religion in American History blo"Save our desperate daughters," proclaims the cover article in issue 521 of Mishpacha [family] magazine, an English-language,...
leibmanSep 11, 20141 minFemale (Mis)Behavior, Class, and Religious Authority: Bath Attendants in Early America (Religion in What can baths tell us, then, about the everyday lives and challenges women faced in early America? In this post, I move beyond an...
leibmanSep 11, 20141 minVirtually Dead: Religion in the Age of the Internet (Religion in American History blog post)This past spring, I taught a digital humanities course on American Dead and Undead. The premise of the course was fairly simple: we...