DoHistory: The Website (1:28)


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The site DoHistory.org shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. It uses the example of Martha Ballard's diary to show the process of investigation from primary resources.

Martha Ballard's story has been retold in many forms. The diary has allowed the present a glimpse of the past.

Through surviving pages, digital information and movie images, the words of Martha Ballard continue to tell their story today.



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