Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938 in Idaho ) is an American feminist historian .
Ulrich grew up in Indiana and came to Massachusetts with her husband Gael Ulrich in 1960 , where she studied at the University of New Hampshire and then raised five children. From 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 , who had left a diary, she received the Pulitzer Prize for history and several other prizes such as the Bancroft Prize . The title of her book Well-behaved women seldom make history , in which she uses a few examples ( Rosa Parks , Christine de Pizan , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Harriet Tubman , Virginia Woolf ) to describe how women left traces in history, alludes to a quote from her, which has become a household word in the USA. She is an active Mormon woman and has also published a book on Mormon women.
In 1990 she received the John H. Dunning Prize and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association and in 2013 the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award . In 2003 she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .
Fonts
- 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
- with Emma Lou Thayne : All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir, Aspen Press 1995
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member History: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 30, 2018 (with biographical notes).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Idaho |