A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.
	What is this site?
	On this day in Martha Ballard's Diary... "I have done hous wk" (November 21, 1807)

 

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Created by Film Study Center, Harvard University and hosted by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.