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...historical scholarship that began with the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife??s Tale” was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in History, said that for a long time she had forgotten the offhand remark about “well-behaved women.” She penned it in her very first academic publication, a 1976 journal article that appeared...
...mixed media into their novels. More recently, W.G. Sebald sprinkled his prose with photographs in “The Emigrants.” And Ackerman’s speculations on Antonina’s diary entries are reminiscent of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s “A Midwife??s Tale.” But what is striking about this book is that the patchwork is not nearly as seamless as that of its predecessors. The constant—and abrupt—changes between narrative voices make the book an occasionally disconcerting read. Still...
...department.”“We’ve doubled our active duty roster from one to two,” Gordon added, referring to the number of Pulitzer winners now in his department. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th anniversary University professor, whose “Midwife??s Tale” won a Pulitzer in 1991, expressed a similar sentiment.“This is a wonderful day for the Harvard History Department and for two terrific colleagues,” Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “I can tell you from experience that...
Ulrich, until recently the Phillips professor of early American history, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her book, “A Midwife??s Tale,” based on a diary kept by a Maine woman from 1785 to 1812. That book inspired a 1996 PBS docudrama, in which Ulrich herself appeared...
...really ‘A Midwife??s Tale’ that led me into this work with textiles, because there’s so much spinning and weaving in that diary,” Ulrich said. “I was trying to figure out what that meant and where it was coming from, so I got into economic- and artifact-based history...