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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Born

in Sugar City, Idaho, The United States

July 11, 1938

Genre

History, Women & Gender Studies

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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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Average rating: 3.96 · 14,815 ratings · 2,009 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 9,179 ratings — published 1990 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,822 ratings — published 1982 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History 3.82 avg rating — 1,654 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Susan Ericksen (Narrator) 3.98 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth 4.02 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir by Emma Lou Warner Thayne (Goodreads Author), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 4.26 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tangible Things: Making History through Objects by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner 3.69 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slogan 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rachel's Death: Leonard J Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series #9 (Arrington Lecture Series) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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She-Wolves

Helen Castor

3 votes, 50.0%

The Professor and the Madman

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1 vote, 16.7%

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1 vote, 16.7%

Mayflower

Nathaniel Philbrick

1 vote, 16.7%

Meditations

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Mythology

Edith Hamilton

0 votes, 0.0%

6 total votes

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