Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Books
Tangible Things: Making History through Objects
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• Presents an innovative and unprecedented exhibition as a new framework for thinking about museum collections • Challenges the boundaries between museums and between academic disciplines • Introdu...
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generat...
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Good Wives
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This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burden...
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The Age of Homespun
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They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tableclot...
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