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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

How Future Historians Might Use Your Quarantine Diary

John Fea   |  March 31, 2020

A couple weeks ago I encouraged everyone to keep a coronavirus diary.  Read that post here. Over at The New York Times, Amelia Nierenberg reports on the diaries and journals that “tell the story of an anxious, claustrophobic world on pause.” ...

The Latest from the Randall Stephens Collection: Historian Baseball Card Series

John Fea   |  March 30, 2019

Check out the entire collection here.  ...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Answers Ten Questions

John Fea   |  April 13, 2018

She has won every award that an American historian can win.  When this post goes live, I will be sitting in a classroom with eighty United States history survey students watching “A Midwife’s Tale,” a movie based on her book...

2017 Princeton Seminar: Day 5

John Fea   |  July 28, 2017

It was another busy day at the Gilder-Lehrman Institute‘s “Colonial Era” teacher seminar at Princeton University.  We covered a lot of ground yesterday and traveled through three different regions of British colonial America: We started the day discussing women and...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Describes Her Journey From Mormon Motherhood to the Halls of Harvard

John Fea   |  October 24, 2014

I love reading biographies and autobiographies of historians and other academics.  I have been teaching Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s movie (based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title) “A Midwife’s Tale” for probably fifteen years.  It works very well...

Women at Work in Massachusetts

John Fea   |  June 4, 2014

Marla Miller of the University of Massachusetts has storified the tweets from the recent Massachusetts History Conference at Holy Cross College.  This year the theme was: “Never Done: Interpreting the History of Women at Work in Massachusetts” with Laurel Thatcher...

The Midwife’s Tale at 20

John Fea   |  October 21, 2010

If you are in the Worcester, MA area and are a big fan of the work of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, head on over to the American Antiquarian Society for its 7th Annual Robert C. Baron Lecture.  Ulrich will be...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Historical Preservation

John Fea   |  June 16, 2010 1 Comment

Noted early American historian and Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spoke recently about the importance of historical preservation at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. Here is a snippet from the Deseret News:History is not what happened, it […]

So What CAN You Do With a History Major?: Part 14

John Fea   |  December 23, 2009

In this segment of our series we are going to go in a slightly different direction. Our previous posts have focused on testimonials or research related to jobs that people with history degrees can do, have done, or are doing....

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