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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...
...Ulrich “didn’t intend to do medical history” at first, but since her subject worked with sick patients and pregnant women, Ulrich said she “couldn’t very well interpret [Ballard’s] work without getting pretty interested in folk medicine, herbs, and the kinds of things she was involved...
Ballard’s accounts also led Ulrich into subsequent study of women’s needlework and early American material culture...
...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...
...examined Ballard’s integral role in a post-Revolutionary Maine community, Ulrich has established herself as an influential figure in academia...