Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich received her B.A. from the University of Utah, her M.A. from Simmons College, and her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. She was previously Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and is currently Phillips Professor of Early American History and 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. Her book A Midwife's Tale won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the American Historical Society's John H. Dunning and Joan Kelly Memorial Prizes. Ulrich's discovery of Martha Ballard and work on the diary has been chronicled in a documentary film written and produced...
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The Age of Homespun
eBook | pages | Vintage | History - United States
978-0-307-41686-5 (0-307-41686-0)
August 26, 2009 | $23.95
Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth--and of history--in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods--Indian baskets, spinning...
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
eBook | pages | Vintage | History - United States
978-0-307-41686-5 (0-307-41686-0)
August 26, 2009 | $23.95
Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth--and of history--in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods--Indian baskets, spinning...
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Historiography
978-1-4000-7527-0 (1-4000-7527-0)
September 23, 2008 | $16.95
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting...
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Historiography
978-1-4000-7527-0 (1-4000-7527-0)
September 23, 2008 | $16.95
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting...
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
eBook | pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Historiography
978-0-307-47277-9 (0-307-47277-9)
September 23, 2008 | $18.95
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting...
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
eBook | pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Historiography
978-0-307-47277-9 (0-307-47277-9)
September 23, 2008 | $18.95
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting...
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Historiography
978-1-4000-4159-6 (1-4000-4159-7)
September 4, 2007 | $30.00
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting...
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - Historiography
978-1-4000-4159-6 (1-4000-4159-7)
September 4, 2007 | $30.00
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Age of Homespun
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage | History - United States
978-0-679-76644-5 (0-679-76644-8)
November 12, 2002 | $23.95
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.
In an age when even meals are rarely made from...
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage | History - United States
978-0-679-76644-5 (0-679-76644-8)
November 12, 2002 | $23.95
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.
In an age when even meals are rarely made from...
Also available as an
eBook.
Good Wives
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Women's Studies; History - United States
978-0-679-73257-0 (0-679-73257-8)
June 4, 1991 | $21.00
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional...
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Women's Studies; History - United States
978-0-679-73257-0 (0-679-73257-8)
June 4, 1991 | $21.00
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional...
A Midwife's Tale
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Women's Studies; History - United States
978-0-679-73376-8 (0-679-73376-0)
June 4, 1991 | $22.95
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Women's Studies; History - United States
978-0-679-73376-8 (0-679-73376-0)
June 4, 1991 | $22.95
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
