Go to the site The Ulysses S. Grant Web site is the companion to the PBS broadcast airing May 5 and 12th (check local listings), and features broadband activities for kids of all ages.
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The newest addition to American Experience’s acclaimed Presidential Portrait series, “Ulysses S. Grant” is the dramatic story of one of America’s most paradoxical leaders.  Revered as the victor of the Civil War, Grant becomes president during one of the most tumultuous eras in US history and struggles to mend a broken nation. The URL for the site is http://www.pbs.org/amex/grant/.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ulysses S. Grant Web site features broadband activities for kids of all ages.

What you can do online:

- Use maps, video clips, and text to determine your moves in “You’re the General,” an interactive game. Would you have done things differently at the decisive battle of Shiloh?

- Take a video tour of the Shiloh battlefield with a National Park Service ranger and a group of eighth graders from Michie, Tennessee.

- Step into Ulysses’ shoes and learn about his frontier boyhood, including school, work, and play. Featuring historian interviews, interactive polls, galleries, and stories.  

- Go behind the scenes with the film’s production team and learn how historical documentaries are made. Direct a scene yourself, altering the editorial, visual, and sound content, and try out different versions.

- Access an e-book version of one of the most significant autobiographies in American history, Grant’s “Personal Memoirs”.

- Watch scenes from the film, including the “Final Battle” sequence, an account of Grant’s last days, and his deathbed struggle to complete his memoirs.

- Learn more about Grant’s wife Julia and their four children; Red Cloud, William Tecumseh Sherman, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, Grant’s funeral, and other people and events of the time.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Online
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Online serves more than 2.3 million pages of history content to visitors every month. American Experience sites have been critically acclaimed by Yahoo!, Netscape, Yahooligans!, TV Guide Online’s WebGuide, USA Today, TipWorld, The Scout Report, UK Plus Site of the Day, Sur?ng the Net with Kids, and Learning in Motion’s Top Ten List.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Online is produced by WGBH Interactive, Boston, which produces Web sites supporting WGBH national series such as NOVA, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW and ARTHUR. The WGBH Educational Foundation is the single largest producer of primetime television programs and Web sites seen nationally on PBS and PBS.org.

PBS Online
PBS.org, PBS's award-winning site on the World Wide Web, produces high-quality Web programming as it pioneers the convergence of television and the Internet. PBS.org features more than 135,000 pages of content as well as companion Web sites for more than 450 PBS programs and specials, and is the #1 "dot-org" Web site in the world.  (Source: Nielsen NetRatings)

Major funding for American Experience is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. National corporate funding is provided by Liberty Mutual and The Scotts Company. Additional funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.  

For further information please contact Rebecca Singer (WGBH) at 617.300.5305 or Daphne B. Noyes (WGBH) at 617.300.5344
 
 

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