![]() ![]() There is no discussion of whether or not the Book of Mormon is an ancient record or a forgery. In making use of these materials, Ulrich does not trouble with questions of faith. Fearing embarrassment, the church has kept some of those sources away from the prying eyes of historians, but church leaders opened the vaults for Ulrich. ![]() Scores of 19th-century Latter-day Saints maintained daily journals, and countless boxes of letters, autobiographies, and photographs fill the church’s archives in Salt Lake City. “A great deal of what women did has been lost because no one wrote it down,” Ulrich observes. Some ran away from their non-Mormon husbands, many entered into polygamy, and nearly all fiercely defended their religion and its system of marriage. They joined a scorned religious minority. Indeed, in the eyes of white Protestant Americans, Ulrich’s subjects could not have been more brazen. ![]() Ulrich’s new study, A House Full of Females, tells the story of just such ill-behaved women. She meant, more specifically, that colonial-era women attracted little notice unless they chafed against patriarchal expectations. ![]() AS THE TITLE of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s 2007 book affirms, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. ![]()
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