Rebecca Brenner Graham is a PhD candidate in history at American University in Washington, DC, writing her dissertation on American nineteenth-century religion-state relations through the lens of Sunday mail delivery. Her MA with a concentration in public history is from American University. Rebecca currently teaches history at an all-girls college-preparatory boarding/day school in Northern Virginia. She also works as a freelance public historian and writer in the greater Washington, DC area with bylines in The Washington Post, Public Seminar, Contingent Magazine, and the US Intellectual History (USIH) blog.