Student Center
|
Instructor Center
|
Information Center
|
Home
Students' Guide to the Site
Guide to Electronic Research
PowerWeb
GradeSummit
Choose a Chapter
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Essay Quiz
Primary Sources
Multiple Choice Quiz
AHW: 18th-Century Women
AHW: Martha Ballard & Diary
Feedback
Help Center
Women and the American Experience Concise, 2/e
Nancy Woloch, Barnard College
The Eighteenth Century: The Eve of Modernity
Primary Sources
View a page of Martha Ballard's famous diary at
(http://www.dohistory.org/diary/1785/01/17850101_img.html)
Look at a letter describing the treatment for a woman "in pthisis pulmonalis" to learn ab...
(http://www.dohistory.org/archive/doc102/)
Childbirth was strictly a women's ritual. Read about 18th-century rejection of male invo...
(http://www.dohistory.org/archive/doc041/)
Learn some colonial laws and punishments for violation in the Perpetual Laws of the Commo...
(http://www.dohistory.org/archive/doc024/)
Read through Foster vs. North, a 1790 Supreme Judicial Court case of assault at
(http://www.dohistory.org/archive/doc021/)
Read three newspapers, the Pennsylvania Gazette, the Boston Gazette, and the Massachusett...
(http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/index.html)
Look at maps of the colonies during the 18th-century. Some relate to the Revolutionary W...
(http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/index.html)
2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Any use is subject to the
Terms of Use
and
Privacy Policy
.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
is one of the many fine businesses of
The McGraw-Hill Companies
.
2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education