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Phillips Professor of History Laurel T. Ulrich was honored at the ceremony for her contributions to colonial and women’s history. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her A Midwife??€™s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on her Diary, she commented on the diverse expertise of the inductees...
Ulrich’s books, including Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 and A Midwife??€™s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, have set a standard of readability as well as scholarship. A Midwife??€™s Tale earned a Pulitzer Prize in history and was crafted into a documentary. With The Age of Homsepun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, Ulrich is back with another study of life in colonial New England that is destined to become...