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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Books

Historian

American historian known for her work in the fields of gender history and early American history. Born on July 11, 1938, Ulrich graduated from Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University. Her book 'Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1630-1830' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982.

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“Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.”

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“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.”

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“So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.”

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“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”

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“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

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“A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.”

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Born: July 11, 1938
Known for: Historian
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