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. It 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. A PBS American Experience film. Blueberry Hill Productions www.blueberryhi..., Filmmaker: Laurie Kahn. Mass Humanities funded this film project in 1994.