Cavalcade of America — 1938
30 episodes broadcast in 1938.
Robert Hare, one of America's first great electrochemists.
The Big Brothers movement, seen through an immigrant boy's letters home.
Francis Scott Key, the lawyer who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner.
A biography of the many-talented Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Louisiana Purchase and the doubling of American territory.
Noah Webster, whose name became a byword for the American dictionary.
Anne Sullivan, the teacher who led Helen Keller out of darkness.
Buffalo Bill Cody, the last of the great frontier scouts.
Captain Robert Gray, the navigator who discovered the Columbia River.
John James Audubon and his passion for painting America's birds.
Charlotte Cushman, America's first great stage actress.
The search for iron, told through a frontier woman of spirit and courage.
Thomas Jefferson and his founding of the University of Virginia.
The rise of the 4-H Club movement in rural America.
Astronomer Maria Mitchell, who astonished the world by discovering a comet.
The songs inspired by the mighty Mississippi.
Fra Junipero Serra and the founding of the California missions.
The growth of child welfare in the United States.
Samuel Slater, the father of the American factory system.
The early history of coal, king of American fuels.
Dr. John Gorrie, the physician who pioneered mechanical refrigeration.
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, founder of the DuPont company.
Legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
Peter Stuyvesant and the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
The tall-tale legend of lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
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