Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses her new book, *Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History*, which celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. Ulrich wrote, "They didn't ask to be remembered", in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. She then added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history". Today those words appear almost everywhere, but what do they really mean? In this book, Ulrich goes far beyond the slogan she inadvertently created and explores what it means to make history. Ulrich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of *A Midwife's Tale*, is a professor at Harvard University.