Word: ulriches
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...find a story in an old coin or engraving as well as in a traditional archive," said Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history and Harvard's other professor of Women's Studies...
Ultimately, Kahn-Leavitt's open-ended interpretation of "A Midwife's Tale" jives well with Ulrich's own goals for her work: "to take something that seemingly tells us nothing and interpret it and put it together so that we can implement it to try to understand something about gender and culture...
...Ulrich is currently working on a new book about work and labor in rural New England in relation to international trade, based on artifacts as well as diaries and letters...
...Kahn-Leavitt stresses, "I don't care what it is, it's its own beast." Ulrich agrees: "The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History, and I think that is appropriate...it's not a conventional biography, it's really a work of social history...
What results is an experimental hybrid of both genres. At some points, Ulrich acknowledges that the artistic needs of the film supersede the historical accuracy of the film, but "it will be for others to see if this collaboration worked. Too much historian? Not enough? But this is the risk that Laurie took in making the film. I think this is an exciting project because of that risk...