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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


Born
in Sugar City, Idaho, The United States
July 11, 1938

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She is the author of Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Early New England, 1650-1750 (1982) and A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990) which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 and became the basis of a PBS documentary. In The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Making of an American Myth (2001), she has incorporated museum-based research as well as more traditional archival work. Her most recent book is Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007). Her major fields of interest are early American social history, women's history, and material culture. Professor Ulrich's work is ...more

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A Midwife's Tale: The Life ...

3.96 avg rating — 8,004 ratings — published 1990 — 26 editions
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Good Wives: Image and Reali...

3.99 avg rating — 1,775 ratings — published 1982 — 19 editions
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom M...

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The Age of Homespun: Object...

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All God's Critters Got a Pl...

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Tangible Things: Making His...

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Yards and Gates: Gender in ...

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The Slogan

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Rachel's Death: Leonard J A...

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“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a mountain, ignite a bomb, or refuse to move to the back of the bus. But they also make history by keeping diaries, writing letters, or embroidering initials on linen sheets. History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible. People make history by passing on gossip, saving old records, and by naming rivers, mountains, and children. Some people leave only their bones, though bones too make a history when someone notices.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England Good Wives Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
 
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The Last Duel The Last Duel A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager Eric Jager
 
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The Earth Shall Weep The Earth Shall Weep A History of Native America by James Wilson James Wilson
 
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear James Clear
 
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