A Midwife's Tale
Eighteenth-Century America Through a Woman's Eyes
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.
- Year: 1998
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: Blueberry Hill Films, GBH
- Keyword: docudrama, birth
- Director: Richard P. Rogers
- Cast: Kaiulani Lee, Andrew Elvis Miller, J. Smith-Cameron, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich