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Linda Przybyszewski, Ph.D.<br />
Associate Professor, History; Concurrent Professor, Law School<br />
Biography<br />
Linda Przybyszewski joined the History Department in 2005 and became a concurrent<br />
associate professor in the Law School in 2010. Her specialties are the history of American<br />
law and culture. The topics on which she teaches include crime, heredity, and insanity in<br />
American history, the history of law and religion in the U.S., the gap between academic and<br />
popular history, and the history of fashion and dress in the modern era. Her work in law has<br />
led to invitations to lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ohio Supreme Court. An<br />
accomplished dressmaker, Przybyszewski served as a judge of the annual Garment Challenge<br />
sponsored by the <strong>Association</strong> of Sewing and Design Professionals in 2009. She can tell you<br />
several ways in which the history of law and dress overlap.<br />
Przybyszewski’s most recent publication is Religion and Morality in the Constitutional Order,<br />
one of the American Historical <strong>Association</strong>’s new essays on American Constitutional History.<br />
In 1999, she published The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan, a biography of the first Justice Harlan to serve on the U.S.<br />
Supreme Court. Przybyszewski also edited his wife’s memoirs, Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911 for the Modern Library<br />
in 2002 with support from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Przybyszewski earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989 and<br />
her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1984. Additionally, she has won several national fellowships.<br />
Lectures<br />
Categories<br />
Government, History, Law,<br />
Social Concerns<br />
Don’t Know Much About History: Why Most Historians Don’t Read Popular History and<br />
Most of the Populace Doesn’t Read Academic History<br />
When you walk into your local Barnes and Noble, you don’t always find the books written by Notre Dame historians. Why is that?<br />
Writing style is an issue, but more important, most scholars don’t tend to write the five most popular kinds of history. What are<br />
they and why don’t we?<br />
Who Won the Bible War? The Unexpected Origins of Religious Liberty in Modern America<br />
In 1873, in a historic first, the Ohio Supreme Court allowed the city of Cincinnati to end Bible reading in its public schools. The<br />
controversy had riveted the eyes of the nation. Now, religion has lost. Or has it? The real story reveals the power of Christianity to<br />
influence the shape of religious liberty itself.<br />
Why Are We a Nation of Slobs? The Demise of the Dress Doctors<br />
Early in the 20th century, Americans dressed with more care. They had learned how to from the “dress doctors,” the home<br />
economists who wrote textbooks on dress, and who worked in practically every American high school, until revolutions in style,<br />
curriculum, and culture destroyed their influence. The results have not been pretty.<br />
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