Laurel Thatcher Ulrich joins the Festival in cooperation with the University of Utah Department of History.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will present the O. Meredith Wilson Lecture Series at the University of Utah on Thursday, October 25 and will present at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival on Saturday, October 27. She will present "Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History." In 1996, a single sentence from a scholarly article I wrote twenty years earlier escaped into popular culture. It now appears on bumper stickers, t-shirts, buttons, greeting cards, and mugs. Ulrich’s talk (like her book of the same name) explains how that happened. It asks what it means to be "well-behaved." For more information on Ulrich’s presentation at the University, please contact the Department of History at 801-581-6121 or visit http://www.hum.utah.edu/history/index.php |
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her latest book, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (published by Knopf, September 2007), is inspired by Ulrich’s article of the same title that started a popular slogan now found on everything from bumper stickers to coffee mugs. She is the author of Good Wives (1982) and numerous articles and essays on early American history. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. During her tenure as a MacArthur Fellow, she assisted in the production of a PBS documentary based on A Midwife’s Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning Web site called dohistory.org. Born and raised in the Rocky Mountain West, she has lived in New England since 1960. She and her husband, Gael Ulrich, are the parents of five grown children.