Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will be Lawrence's guest on Thursday, May 1 and Friday, May 2, as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. She will give a public lecture entitled, "The First, Second, and Last Scenes of Mortality: An Eighteenth-Century Textile Mystery" on Thursday, May 1 at 7 pm in Youngchild Hall, room 121, on the Lawrence campus. A short reception will follow. She will also be available to discuss her work more informally at a question and answer session on Friday, May 2, at 10 am in the John Strange Commons in Lawrence's Main Hall. Both events are free.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary Professor at Harvard University, where she teaches early American history and women's history. Her books include Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Early New England, 1650-1750 (1982) and A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990); this latter book won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 and was made into a documentary for PBS. Professor Ulrich's recent books include The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Making of an American Myth (2001) and Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007). She has been the recipient of a Macarthur Foundation "genius" grant and is President-elect of the American Historical Association.
Monica Rico
Assistant Professor of History
