Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Three-Hundredth Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Examines three key works by women--the fifteenth-century "Book of the City of Ladies" by Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's memoirs, and Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," to explore the making of history from a woman's perspective.

Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History

Presents the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the eighteenth century, by drawing on the detailed diary she kept for twenty-seven years of her life

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

A Midwife's Tale

A portrait of early industrialization in America chronicles the production of cloth and its influence on the cultural, economic, social, and political world of early America.

Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

The Age of Homespun

Assesses the roles and status of women of early New England in terms of family and community organization, the structure of daily life and work, responsibilities and authority, and more

Three-Hundredth Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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