Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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 ...

insider.si.edu: A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

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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 ...

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“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, ...

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