Laurel Ulrich
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Today those words appear on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which...
Series
American experience volume 79
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The life of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Hallowell, Maine, is reconstructed from her diary by historian Laurel Ulrich. Includes public performance rights.