Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ( born July 11, 1938 in Idaho) is an American feminist historian.

Ulrich grew up in Indiana, and came in 1960 with her husband Gael Ulrich to Massachusetts, where she studied at the University of New Hampshire and then raised them five children. As of 1995, she taught at Harvard University.

For her book A Midwife 's Tale about a midwife ( Martha Ballard, 1734/35-1812 ) in the 18th century in Maine, which had left a diary, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history and some other awards such as the Bancroft Prize. The title of her book Well- behaved women seldom make history, in which she focuses on some examples ( Rosa Parks, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Virginia Woolf ) describes how women left their mark in history, playing on a quote of her, which in the U.S. was a household word. She is active as a Mormon, and even published a book about Mormon women.

In 2013 she received the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award.

Writings

  • Well- behaved women seldom make history, Alfred Knopf 2007
  • A midwife 's tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812, Alfred Knopf 1990
  • The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, Alfred Knopf 2001
  • Emma Lou Thayne with: All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir, Aspen Press 1995
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