Cavalcade of America — 1940
39 episodes broadcast in 1940.
The explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the man America was named for.
Sam Houston fights Santa Anna after the fall of the Alamo.
Mehitable Wing and her remarkable frontier horseback ride.
Tisquantum (Squanto), the Native American who befriended the Pilgrims.
How Thomas Jefferson came to draft the Declaration of Independence.
The notorious French-born privateer Jean Lafitte.
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln through the Civil War years.
Anne Royall, a pioneering Washington newspaperwoman.
James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary War tale The Spy.
Colonel William Barton's daring capture of a British general.
Sam Houston's victory over Santa Anna and the winning of Texas.
Confederate boy-spy Sam Davis, who chose death over betrayal.
John Fitch, the frustrated real inventor of the steamboat.
The treason of General Benedict Arnold.
The life and songs of Stephen Foster.
The great frontiersman Daniel Boone.
A portrait of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
The life of Revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine.
Nancy Hanks, the frontier mother of Abraham Lincoln.
Roger Williams, an early champion of religious freedom.
Jane Addams and the founding of Chicago's Hull House.
A condensation of the classic musical Show Boat.
John Sutter, the Swiss immigrant on whose land California gold was found.
Composer Victor Herbert, told in story and song.
Susan B. Anthony, pioneer of the fight for women's rights.
Dr. Walter Reed's conquest of yellow fever.
The mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.
Washington and the army's desperate winter at Valley Forge.
Matthew Fontaine Maury, the pathfinder who charted the seas.
Young Abraham Lincoln and his first love, Ann Rutledge.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger's hunt for the cause and cure of pellagra.
How Jim Hickok became the frontier legend Wild Bill.
Benjamin Franklin charms the royal court of France.
A romance along the Erie Canal.
Martha Berry and the mountain school she founded in Georgia.
The story behind Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The fiery abolitionist John Brown.
The story of the peaceful, undefended border between the US and Canada.
A Christmas dramatization of the folk play The Green Pastures.
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