Cavalcade of America — 1948
44 episodes broadcast in 1948.
A Chief Justice of the United States and the lady who changes his life.
Young Theodore Roosevelt as a rancher and lawman in the Dakota Badlands.
An aging schoolteacher faces the end of her beloved career.
A fateful night as Abraham Lincoln goes to the theater.
The comic awakening of a mild-mannered exterminator, Charlie Pomerantz.
The immigrant scientist Michael Pupin and his work with X-rays.
A Texas farm boy battles the Dust Bowl storms of the Depression.
Nurse Clara Maass gives her life to the fight against yellow fever.
Ellen Swallow Richards, a pioneering woman of American science.
Dr. Samuel Bard, the physician who saved President Washington's life.
President Grover Cleveland's White House courtship of young Frances Folsom.
Rebecca Lukens, the first woman to run an American iron mill.
A fantasy journey aboard the postwar Freedom Train.
A dramatization saluting the founding spirit of Rutgers University.
Robert E. Lee's quiet years as a college president after the Civil War.
Author Washington Irving and the legends of the Hudson Valley.
A research doctor trades the laboratory for life as a country physician.
Harriet Pullen, the widow who built a hotel empire in gold-rush Alaska.
Benjamin Silliman, Yale's first professor of chemistry.
The fight against leprosy, told through a soldier of the Spanish-American War.
Frederic Remington, the artist who captured the vanishing Old West.
A 1910 Chautauqua day and the oratory of William Jennings Bryan.
Grace Moore's rise from a church choir to the Metropolitan Opera.
A tribute to the Williamsburg pageant of America's founding ideals.
Louisa May Alcott and the one great romance of her life.
A centennial history of the Associated Press.
The battle of Gettysburg, seen through a soldier's eyes.
Varina Howell, who fell in love with and married Jefferson Davis.
A dramatic incident set at Niagara Falls.
Lieutenant Hobson's daring mission to bottle up the Spanish fleet at Santiago.
Andrew Jackson comes home at last to the Hermitage.
Jack Jouett's midnight ride to save Thomas Jefferson from capture.
Prudence Potter and the frontier women who defended Bryant's Station.
The mutiny in the ranks of Mad Anthony Wayne's Continental troops.
Dr. Samuel Mudd, imprisoned for treating Lincoln's assassin.
Booker T. Washington and the founding of the Tuskegee Institute.
Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold's road to treason.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and his discovery of the cause of childbed fever.
The theatrical dynasty of actor Otis Skinner and his family.
December 20, 1948
The Du Pont Chorus
Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the birth of the South Carolina indigo trade.
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