Making History with The American Experience Online

Posted on January 17, 1998

PBS Online is offering three website on different aspects of American Experience. Beginning January 19, log on to A Midwife's Tale to follow the dramatic story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother in the wilds of Maine in the years after the American Revolution. Web surfers will view pages from the Ballard diary, read about the turmoil in America following the revolution, and hear RealAudio interviews with television producer, Laurie Kahn Leavitt and historian and author, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The television program and Web site is based on Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title.

On February 2, online travelers can experience the great American vacation on the Mr. Miami Beach site . Send an electronic postcard from historic Miami Beach, explore how the car changed the way Americans went on vacation, take a look at Miami Beach in the 1990s, and check-out the Deco architecture of South Beach.

Then on February 9, take a closer look at the flu epidemic that killed more than 600,000 Americans eighty years ago on Influenza 1918. Discover how researchers are identifying this year's flu virus and just how the killer flu of 1918 spread. Visit the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital to learn if the pandemic that killed over 25 million people around the world can happen again.

The American Experience produces a companion Web site for every new television broadcast of The American Experience, with information beyond the broadcast including program schedules, teacher guides, audience feedback, and links to related sites.