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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich began her writing career in 1956 with an essay in Seventeen magazine describing Christmas in Sugar City, Idaho, her hometown. A graduate of the University of Utah, she moved with her husband, Gael Ulrich, to Massachusetts in 1960, and then to New Hampshire, where she completed her PhD in early American history. She is the author of several prize-winning books, including A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870, which was published in 2017. She recently retired from Harvard University. She and Gael now live in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania near some of their children and grandchildren and are members of the Philadelphia Fourth Ward.
Laurel T. Ulrich, L.T.U., LTU, Laurel Ulrich
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Gael Ulrich
1938-07-11
Sugar City, Idaho
University of Utah, MA in English from Simmons College, doctorate in history at the University of New Hampshire
Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, professor at Harvard
Female
Author, Professor
English

24 Works by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Title Role Year Genre
Poor Mother Author Personal Essay
Ode to Autumn Author Personal Essay
All God's Critters Got A Place in the Choir Author 1995 Personal Essay
And Woe Unto Them That Are With Child in Those Days Author Personal Essay
Counseling the Brethren Author Personal Essay
A Little Bit of Heaven Author Personal Essay
The Pink Dialogue and Beyond Author Personal Essay
Family Scriptures Author Personal Essay
Border Crossings Author Personal Essay
Danish Pancakes Author Personal Essay
A History Lesson Author Personal Essay
Pharisees and Sinners Author Personal Essay
Canned Worship Author Personal Essay
Heckled in New Hampshire Author Personal Essay
Unclean Author Personal Essay
Improve the Shining Moments Author Personal Essay
Resist Not Evil Author Personal Essay
Clio Meets Elijah at the Family History Center Author Personal Essay
Primary Problems in a Primary History Author Review
Voting Time Author Personal Essay
Visiting Teaching Part One Author Personal Essay
Visiting Teaching Part II Author Personal Essay
Retreat Moments Author Personal Essay
“For the Power is in Them”: Leonard Arrington and the Founders of Exponent II Author 2020 Personal Essay
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