Word: ulriches
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Harvard honored two scholars of history last week, bestowing the prestigious title of University professor upon Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Peter L. Galison...
...Ulrich and Galison join a community of 17 other current University professors, whose work transcends academic disciplines. Since the title was created in 1935, the scholars who hold it report directly to Harvard’s president instead of a school dean...
...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...
...Ulrich, who majored in English at the University of Utah, said her move from the Rocky Mountains to New England piqued her interest in this region’s history. She said the full title of her new chair, the 300th Anniversary University professorship, fits her well because her work examines the way in which 20th century New Englanders have viewed their own past. Harvard turned...
This spring Ulrich will teach the Core course Historical Study B-41, “Inventing New England: History, Memory, and the Creation of a Regional Identity,” and she said in an interview that “the early 20th century was very much about looking back to the colonial times...