![]() ![]() She and her husband, Gael Ulrich, are the parents of five grown children. Her work is also featured on an award-winning Web site called. During her tenure as a MacArthur Fellow, she assisted in the production of a PBS documentary based on A Midwife’s Tale. Born and raised in the Rocky Mountain West, she has lived in New England since 1960. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. Formerly a professor of American history at the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of Good Wives (1982) and numerous articles and essays on early American history. ![]() Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. A Bed Sheet in Beinecke by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA).Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.Although DoHistory is centered on the life of Martha Ballard, you can learn basic skills and techniques for interpreting fragments that survive from any period in history. ![]() It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into Laura Thatcher Ulrich's book A Midwife's Tale and the film which followed, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard.
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