Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Essay 1 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s essay “Well Behaved Women” is a reflection on how she believes her slogan “Well behaved women seldom make history” became so popular within a community of individuals, all of which believe the slogan relates to them. To utilize the meaning of this slogan, many companies, bloggers and artists have created media using the slogan, one of which will be discussed within this analysis of Ulrich’s viewpoint on the issues of her slogan. The image that will be discussed…

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale is an exploration into the life of Martha Ballard, a successful sixteenth-century midwife, through her diary entries. Through Martha’s perspective and Ulrich’s commentary, the readers are able to get a sense of how society was like in colonial North America, where her diary entries take place. Colonial women were primarily expected to perform wifely duties and tend to domestic affairs while their husbands worked to financially sustain the household.…

they had was unimaginable. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote Good Wives to explain the roles of women’s lives and explain the neglected aspects people never considered. Furthermore, she wrote this book to describe these changing roles of the world people thought “men” controlled. The historical account is a topical social history. Ulrich chose the topic and incorporated evidence from different events ,therefore making the work topical social. To organize her account, Ulrich stated each sub-thesis…

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s essay Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, is an excellent example of analytical social history, that is aimed to educate other historians, women, and others interested in social history (the history of groups that might not have participated in mainstream life), the intersectionality of women’s history, and pop-culture. Ulrich’s essay uses several rhetorical devices to create a convincing argument for the existence of collaborative history and the importance of…

A Midwife’s Tale, written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, is a monograph that gives us insight on colonial life in the 18th century. In this book, Martha Ballard’s historical collection of diary entries document her hectic life as a very important figure in her community. Exemplifying the epitome of a jack-of-all-trades, Martha Ballard serves her community as a midwife, nurse, physician, pharmacist, mortician, and wife all at the same time. In the book, the reader gets a glimpse of how rough it was…

Morgan Sawyer Early History September 12, 2014 A Mid-Wife’s Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is best known for writing books on early New England. She was raised in eastern Idaho. She moved to New England when she married her husband, Gael Urich, in 1960.. She shows a very authoritative role as she completed her graduate studies at the University of New Hampshire, at the time she was also raising her five children. She became a professor at Harvard in 1995 where she teaches history. This book was…

England. She was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. In A Midwife’s Tale, a book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Martha served Hallowell, Maine as a midwife. She kept a diary of her life and exploits. This diary was used as a window into the world of Martha Ballard and her experiences in life. Ulrich used the diary as an interpretive tool and uses many part of the diary in her own book. Ulrich used her own thoughtful interpretation of the diary to provide proof of her argument and…

response to their suitors, she discusses the great volume of letters exchanged between women. Distinct from the assertive attempts of men, women preferred to leave courtship affairs private due to the fear of society’s pressures. According to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and her book “Good Wives”, this could have been explained by the upbringing in which women resorted to their parents for all things. “…the ability of a daughter to express and perhaps even to recognize her own feelings depended upon…

How would life be like if you were a woman in the 18th century juggling as a housewife and a mother with a busy career as a midwife? Laurel Thatcher Ulrich presents a novel, “A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Base on Her Diary, 1785-1812,” about a midwife and her life in the 18th century balancing between being a mother and being a professional. Ulrich defines Martha Ballard as a 54 year old midwife and a healer for the New England community. Martha traveled around her community…

These secondary sources explore crime history, gender roles, racial histories and relationships, religious interaction and histories, and biographies. Examples of journal articles are Laurel Ulrich Thatcher 's " Wheels, Looms, and Gender Division of Labor in the Eighteenth Century" (they actually use several of Thatcher 's monographs and articles)and Hoatling and Sugarman 's " A Risk Market Analysis of Assaulted Wives." Examples of monographs include Richard E. Welch Jr. 's Theodore Sedgwick…