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Material:
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The Martha Ballard Case Study: A Midwife's Tale
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| Submitted by: |
William Paquette on Oct 12, 2004 |
| Date Last Modified: |
Oct 12, 2004 |
| Title: |
The Martha Ballard Case Study: A Midwife's Tale |
| Description: |
The Martha Ballard Case Study: A Midwife's Tale is a case study in how tragic character assassination can be in an 18th century New England town. This interactive site seeks to teach students how to piece fragmentary evidence together to reconstruct past events. Site users use primary sources including diaries, newspapers, and town records to decide for themselves what happened and why. |
| Type of Task: |
Individual,
Student-centered,
Supplemental activity,
Unsupervised
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| Time Required |
5-7 hours. |
| Topics: |
Colonial New England
Women in Colonial America
Medicine in Colonial America |
| Course: |
United States History survey |
| Audience: |
College General Ed,
High School
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| Prerequisites Skills: |
None. |
| Learning Objectives: |
The use of primary sources to recreate the past.
To improve writing skills via history. |
| Technical Notes: |
None. |
| Text of Learning Exercise: |
Using The Martha Ballard Case Study: A Midwife's Tale, write a 5-7 page paper describing the state of medicine with emphasis on midwifery in Colonial New England. Use either MLA, APA, or Turabian footnoting styles. |
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None. |
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