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  • A Midwife's Tale

    The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Age of Homespun

    Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

    They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Good Wives

    Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

    This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising- ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A House Full of Females

    Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

    From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

    From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. Ulrich explains how that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Fifty Years of Exponent II

    On a sweltering day in June 1974, a group of housewives, graduate students, and young professionals gathered in the Boston suburbs. Their mission: to produce the first issue of Exponent II, a “humble yet sincere” newspaper “poised on the dual platforms of Mormonism and Feminism.” They viewed their work as an act of devotion, not rebellion, and were naïve of the cold reception they would soon ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tangible Things

    Making History through Objects

    In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. The authors of this ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    The Age of Homespun

    Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 50 min

    Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth—and of history—in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods—Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy ... Read more

    $41.95 CAD

  • The Slogan

    Series series A Vintage Short
    A selection from the admired history Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, the story of how one of feminism’s most popular slogans came to life.In the opening paragraph of an obscure 1976 scholarly article investigating the prim and proper women celebrated in Puritan funeral sermons, Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich penned the phrase, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Since then, ... Read more

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    A Midwife’s Tale

    The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 42 min

    Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Good Wives

    Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 21 min

    This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden—and not always stoic—face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In this book we encounter the awesome burdens—and the considerable power—of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising—and, all ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Book of Aron

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    by Jim Shepard ...
    Narrated by Michael Goldstrom ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust.Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish ... Read more

    $18.00 CAD