Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Writer · b. 1938 · Sugar City, Idaho, USA
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor emerita at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people". Ulrich has also been a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Her most famous book, 'A Midwife’s Tale', was the basis for a PBS documentary film.
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Movie8.2DocumentaryHistoryTo understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary. "A Midwife's Tale" chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
A Midwife's Tale
1998 · 3 votes