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 Departments 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.
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