Cavalcade of America — 1941
53 episodes broadcast in 1941.
A lively life of humorist Will Rogers.
How cartoonist Thomas Nast brought down Boss Tweed with his pen.
Thomas Cooper, who defied the Sedition Act of 1798.
The poet Emily Dickinson and her hidden love.
How the seemingly idle Benjamin Franklin found his drive.
Henry Clay of Kentucky, the great compromiser.
Abraham Lincoln through the Civil War years.
George Washington travels to his first inauguration as president.
The somber life of poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe.
A colonial voice for tolerance in the wilderness.
Botanist Mark Carleton's global hunt for rust-proof wheat.
A radio fantasy on the spirit of poet Walt Whitman.
Herman Melville's South Seas whaling adventures.
Actor Edwin Booth, brother of Lincoln's assassin.
The tragic life of English poet John Keats.
James Oglethorpe and the founding of Georgia as a refuge for debtors.
Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA.
Margaret Fuller, a pioneering American woman journalist.
Horatio Alger, author of the rags-to-riches tale.
Theodosia Burr, the devoted daughter of Aaron Burr.
Frontier legend Davy Crockett recounts his own life.
The Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins and the fortune he left to learning.
Anna Ella Carroll, an unsung woman strategist of the Civil War.
The young frontier lawyer Andrew Jackson.
The sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Joel Chandler Harris, the modest author of the Uncle Remus tales.
Balloonist Jean Pierre Blanchard's first American ascent.
The Public Health Service solves the mystery of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
The trial and banishment of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
An intimate evening with short-story master O. Henry.
Engineer Clifford Holland and the tunnel beneath the Hudson River.
Dr. Josephine Baker, the public health doctor who saved children's lives.
A daring Confederate scheme on the eve of civil war.
Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln's great debating rival.
Sacagawea, the Native American guide of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Leif Ericsson, the Viking who reached the New World.
The Apache war chief Geronimo.
The boom and bust of the Comstock silver lode at Virginia City.
Carl Sandburg reads from The People, Yes in a tribute to the land.
A tribute to American women through the generations.
Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
George Rogers Clark's Revolutionary campaign in the wilderness.
A dramatization of Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster.
Naval hero John Paul Jones.
The warm story of a small-town minister and his family.
Frontier settlers in the Mohawk Valley during the Revolution.
General George Custer and the road to the Little Bighorn.
A Civil War romance set on a Mississippi plantation.
A crusading newspaperman in the early Oklahoma Territory.
The medical drama Men in White, its broadcast carrying the first Pearl Harbor bulletins.
A once-great man reclaims his dignity at the ballot box.
Peggy Eaton and the political intrigue of the Jackson White House.
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