Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quotation, “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” is often misinterpreted as a call to action. In reality, it was the lament of a historian observing that the archive often ...
Well-behaved women seldom make history. The phrase was originally coined by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in her work about Puritan funerary practices. But it quickly escaped its original context, ...