This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. What was it like to be a Mormon woman in a polygamist marriage in 19th-century America? That's what historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explores in her new book "A ...
How a quiet professor became an unlikely hero for feminists When Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote her first scholarly article 30 years ago — an examination of funeral sermons for women in Colonial America ...
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A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich praises her fellow traveler Claudia Bushman, another trailblazing Latter-day Saint and the first editor of Exponent II.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor emerita at Harvard University. Her approach to history has ...
“Historians like to say, ‘No source, no history,’” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich writes in her new book, “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.” Until not ...
A quote that has become ubiquitous with women’s rights comes from Idaho’s own Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Thatcher Ulrich, now 86, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
“Urban fantasies about rural life are as old as the Greek eclogues and as American as the L.L. Bean catalog,” writes Harvard historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in “The ...
"A House Full Of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. (Courtesy Knopf) "Well-behaved women seldom make history." You've probably heard the phrase, ...