A Pail of Cream
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10044063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Center for Systems Biology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2700782 |
| OpenAlex | W2328757321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
As a writer, I have led two lives. In my guise as a historian, I have published carefully documented books and essays about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, using the first person singular only in prefaces. But over the same span of years, I have had a second, less visible life as a personal essayist. In dozens of short pieces descriptive, argumentative, satiric, and occasionally sentimental—I have written about everything from the interpretation of a New Testament verse to standing in line in a fabric store. Most of these pieces have appeared in periodicals associated with the “unsponsored sector” of contemporary Mormonism, a loosely related group of intellectuals, writers, and feminists linked to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In most places, when a stranger comes up to me and says, “I loved your book,” I assume they mean A Midwife's Tale, my history of the eighteenth-century Maine midwife Martha Ballard. In Mormon country, the same comment often refers to All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir; a collection of essays coauthored with the Utah poet Emma Lou Thayne.1
Argumentative · Art · Character (mathematics · Choir · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Visual arts · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |