Selected Works

Books
More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss
Why are Americans so obsessed with marriage?
Book Chapters
“‘My Homosexuality is Getting Worse Every Day’: Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth Century America"
In American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity, edited by Catherine Brekus and W. Clark Gilpin
"Family"
In The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, edited by Philip Goff
"Eroticized Wives: Evangelical Marriage Guides and God’s Plan for the Christian Family"
In The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity, edited by Margaret Kamitsuka
Journal Articles
"'Not Marriage at All, but Simple Harlotry': The Companionate Marriage Controversy"
Journal of American History, 94, no. 4 (March 2008): 1137-1163

Quick Links

University of Delaware History Department
Religion in American History
the best blog for American religious history fans
Damon Linker
a friend who writes and blogs about religion and American politics
Authors Guild
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Authors Guild Directory
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Teaching

Fall 2010:

History of Sexuality in the United States (undergraduate lecture course)

Readings in Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (graduate seminar)

Spring 2011:

Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (undergraduate lecture course)

U.S. History since 1865 (undergraduate lecture course)