Q&A with Mormon Pulitzer winner Laurel T. Ulrich

The phrase “Well-behaved women seldom make history” is often used to

justify weekend Facebook photos, but many do not know that these words

originated in an article about Puritan funeral services by a University

of New Hampshire grad student who is now an accomplished Harvard

professor.Indeed, Pulitzer Prize-winning Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the

History Department’s 300th Anniversary University Professor and the

current president of the American Historical Association, recently

received the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical

Society, becoming the first woman to do so. FM got the chance to speak

with her about her latest award, her career as an historian, and her

love of the seemingly mundane.