Forum Network

Public stations. Community Partners. World-class speakers. Free lecture videos. See what you think.

a public media service of

Public Broadcasting Service National Public Radio

By Topic

By Region

By Period

Speaker Profiles

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

historian, 1991 Pulitzer Prize

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/ulrich.s...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 300th Anniversary University Professor. 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. [more]

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

September 19, 2007

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses her new book, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, which celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. Ulrich wrote, "They didn't ask to be remembered", in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England.

Shared Legacies: Founding Generations Tell Their Stories

September 7, 2005

In celebration of Boston's 375th anniversary, a panel of authors discuss the lives of Massachusetts Bay colonists between 1630 and 1710.

Masquerade: Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier

Alfred F. Young

September 29, 2004

Historian Alfred Young, author of Masquerade, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich examine Americans' public memory of Deborah Sampson and other Revolutionary-era women.

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Publisher: Vintage (1991)

Binding: Paperback, 464 pages

Login or register to post comments