Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.  She is the author of many articles and books on early American history, including A Midwife’s Tale, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991. Through a close examination of artifacts as well as written documents, this lecture will explore an ongoing tension in nineteenth-century Mormonism between piety and romantic love.

 In some circles she is best known for the “accidental slogan” that became the title of her 2007 book, Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History.