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...

"Save our desperate daughters," proclaims the cover article in issue 521 of Mishpacha [family] magazine, an English-language,...

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...

Last week's American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) Biennial Scholars Conference on "Jews and Judaism in the American World of...

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...

The Kabbalah Project (#KabbalahProject) is meant as a creative response to Alexander Gorlin's book, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture. ...

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