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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Formerly a professor of American history at the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of Good Wives (1982) and numerous articles and essays on early American history. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. Born and raised in the Rocky Mountain West, she has lived in New England since 1960. During her tenure as a MacArthur Fellow, she assisted in the production of a PBS documentary based on A Midwife’s Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning Web site called dohistory.org. She and her husband, Gael Ulrich, are the parents of five grown children.—Random House

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Born 1938

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  • Cover of: Good wives: image and reality in the lives of women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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    Cover of edition isbn_9780679732570 Cover of edition goodwivesimagere0000ulri_n3r7 First published in 1982 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Well-behaved women seldom make history
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    First published in 2007 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: A midwife's tale: the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
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    Cover of edition midwifestalelife00ulririch Cover of edition midwifestalelife00ulri First published in 1990 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History

    First published in 2002 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The age of homespun: objects and stories in the creation of an American myth
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  • Cover of: Tangible Things: Making History through Objects

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  • Cover of: New Year in Cuba: Mary Gardner Lowell's Travel Diary, 1831-1832 (New England Diary Series)

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  • Cover of: A beginner's Boston

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  • Cover of: Rachel's Death: Leonard J Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series #9 (Arrington Lecture Series)

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  • Cover of: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

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  • Cover of: The Age of Homespun

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  • Cover of: All God's critters got a place in the choir
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    First published in 1995 — 1 edition
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Born 1938

Subjects

History, New York Times reviewed, Women, Biography, Material culture, Mormons, biography, New england, social conditions, Nonfiction, Social conditions, Women, biography, Women, history, 305.42/0974, 974.1/6 b, American National characteristics, Ballard, martha, Ballard, martha , 1735-1812, Biographies, Biography & Autobiography, Catalogs, Church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, Civilization, Civilization, history, Clothing and dress, Condiciones sociales, Conditions sociales

Places

New England, United States, Augusta, Augusta (Me.), Boston (Mass.), Cambridge, Hallowell, Hallowell (Me.), Kennebec River Valley (Me.), Kennebec, Vallée du (Me.), Maine, Massachusetts

People

Christine de Pisan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Martha Ballard (1735-1812), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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1775-1865, 19th century

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  • OLID: OL2942995A

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