The Ledger She Never Broke
Hallowell, Maine, 1790. She delivered 816 babies. She kept a diary for twenty-seven years. She wrote down the work because the work deserved a record.
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The Math of Free Men
Oella, Maryland, 1790. A man on a tobacco farm taught himself astronomy in his fifties, sent his almanac to Thomas Jefferson with a letter, and let the math do the arguing.
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The Press of Names
Baltimore, January 1777. The first broadside of the Declaration of Independence to name every signer carried one more name at the bottom — the printer’s. Hers.
