![]() ![]() One of those teachers became a major influence on my life. I remember him working out a deal where two women with children split a job teaching English and French because they didn’t want to work full-time. My father was as supportive of my sister and I in school as our brothers, and he actually pioneered in his support for women teachers. We didn’t have a huge library, but we had books and magazines and we used the school library I our town. My father was a teacher and later superintendent of schools in our small town so education was emphasized and exemplified in my family. I didn’t begin to study history formally until the early 1970s when I took a course in the historical writings of early America at the University of New Hampshire after reading an interesting article by the professor who was teaching it. I have probably always been interested in history because I grew up in a family that told stories and came of age in the church when doing family history was emphasized. Laurel Thatcher-Ulrich talks about her backstory. ![]() For example, she’s also the author of A House Full of Females. Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is well-known because of her famous quote, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” But Ulrich is much more than just a popular bumper sticker. ![]()
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