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[[File:A_Midwife's_Tale.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px200px|<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679733760/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679733760&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a818f98524c020e5e923f1b310482750 A Midwive's Tale]</i>]]
Most of us are familiar with a narrative of colonial America that focuses on the actions of our "Founding Fathers." But what of our "Founding Mothers"? This booklist compiles ten works that explore gender in colonial North America and provide an important lens through which we can view some of the formative events in our shared history. These books are listed in no particular order and explore topics from the daily and otherwise mundane like in Ulrich's ''A Midwive's Tale,'' to race and slavery in Brown's ''Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs,'' and Morgan's ''Laboring Women''. These books explore concepts of citizenship as well as biological reproduction and power.
