This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. What was it like to be a Mormon woman in a polygamist marriage in 19th-century America? That's what historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explores in her new book "A ...

How a quiet professor became an unlikely hero for feminists When Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote her first scholarly article 30 years ago — an examination of funeral sermons for women in Colonial America ...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich didn't coin the phrase "well-behaved women seldom make history," but since the publication of her book by that name, the idiom has appeared on bumper stickers, greeting cards ...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor emerita at Harvard University. Her approach to history has ...

A century ago, museums were the sites of science's greatest advances—repositories of objects studied by amateurs and academics in order to glean fresh insights into the natural world. Now, however, ...