Watch A Midwife's Tale (1998)
Eighteenth-Century America Through a Woman's Eyes
A Midwife's Tale — Documentary, History Film (1998)
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary. "A Midwife's Tale" chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
