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Q&A with Mormon Pulitzer winner Laurel T. Ulrich

Published: Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 12:18 a.m. MST
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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.

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