Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938), is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience."
Born in Sugar City, Idaho, Ulrich rece...
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938), is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience."
Born in Sugar City, Idaho, Ulrich received her B.A. in History at the University of Utah, an M.A. in English Literature at Simmons College, and her Ph.D. in History at the University of New Hampshire. She is married to Gael Ulrich, a professor emeritus from the University of New Hampshire. The couple have grown children and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1991, Ulrich received the Pulitzer Prize in history for "A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785–1812". The book examines the life of Northern New England midwife Martha Ballard, and provides a...
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