American Experience

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American Experience - Season 10 Episode 3 A Midwife's Tale


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55 minutes 2024 HD

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Chronicling the efforts of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to gather facts about early American life through the diaries of Maine resident and midwife Martha Ballard (1735?-1812). Included: dramatizations of some of the passages; and the use of town documents to supplement some of Ballard's accounts.

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