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When historian Laurel Ulrich began her research into the lives of American Revolution-era women, she was hardly encouraged by her initial efforts. "You won't find much," everyone seemed to say. And when she began making her way through the diary of midwife Martha Ballard, she was delving into a book that others had found next-to-useless--too full of trivial detail, or so they said. But the details were what she found interesting; and faced with so few sources, Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had, to discover the unspoken realities of women's lives written between the lines of Ballard's diary.

The result of Ulrich's efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife's Tale," now a movie of the same name, made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. The film recounts the day-to-day events described in Ballard's diary and expanded upon by Ulrich, based on some careful deduction, a little......

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