Good wives: Image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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...

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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...

A House Full of Females

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early...

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...

GOOD WIVES

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Good Wives

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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 b...

A Midwife's Tale

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so fore...