Award from the Society of American Historians, and the Charles Frankel Award (now the National Humanities Medal). Professor Ulrich has received numerous awards for teaching, scholarship, and public service, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Arthur M. She further explored material history in Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects (2015), co-authored with Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Sarah Anne Carter. Her 2001 book The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth explored the social and cultural history of early New England through examination of a dozen household objects, including Indian trade baskets, a painted cupboard, a niddy-noddy, and an unfinished stocking. Because of its use of braided stories drawn from early women’s and men’s diaries it received the 2017 Evan Biography Award from the Mountain West Century at Utah State University. Her most recent book, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 explores the paradoxical link between the practice of polygamy or “plural marriage” in Utah Territory and the adoption in 1870 of women suffrage.

She explored that phenomenon in Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007). Others know her for a sentence that escaped from one of her scholarly articles to become a popular slogan. She is probably best known for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and many other awards in 1991. New.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 300 th Anniversary University Professor emerita at Harvard University. And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created 'second-wave feminism' also created a renaissance in the study of history. Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did.

She ranges from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, to the twentieth century’s Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One's Own. Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written. In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, 'Well behaved women seldom make history.' Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. 284 pp.įrom admired historian-and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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