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Bruce Weigl is an American contemporary poet who teaches at Lorain County Community College. Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after... his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star . When he returned to the United States, Weigl obtained a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Arts Degree in Writing/American and British Literature from the University of New Hampshire. From 1975-76, Weigl was an instructor at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. Weigl's first full-length collection of poems, A Romance, was published in 1979. After he received a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1979, he was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas and later held the same position at Old Dominion University. Weigl additionally served as the president of the Associated Writing Programs. During the 1980s, Weigl published two more poetry collections, The Monkey Wars and Song of Napalm.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University. Ulrich's... innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience." Born in Sugar City, Idaho, Ulrich received her B.A. in History at the University of Utah, an M.A. in English Literature at Simmons College, and her Ph.D. in History at the University of New Hampshire. She is married to Gael Ulrich, a professor emeritus from the University of New Hampshire. The couple have adult children and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1991, Ulrich received the Pulitzer Prize in history for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785–1812. At the time of A Midwife's Tale's publication, Ulrich was a MacArthur Foundation Fellow from 1992 to 1997, and an associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. With her appointment to Harvard University, Ulrich became the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.
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