Cavalcade of America — 1949
44 episodes broadcast in 1949.
Johnny Appleseed spreads his orchards and kindness across the frontier.
Thomas Jefferson champions smallpox vaccination at Monticello.
The secret surgery that saved a stricken President Cleveland.
An American's part in a daring plot to rescue Marie Antoinette.
Benjamin Franklin plays matchmaker for the painter Benjamin West.
Young Abe Lincoln's failed venture as a frontier storekeeper.
The tender courtship of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody.
Captain Robert Stobo, an unsung hero of the French and Indian War.
February 28, 1949
Pink Lace
Dorothea Dix and her crusade for humane care of the mentally ill.
A father's frantic search for his wounded soldier son after Antietam.
March 21, 1949
Letter from Europe
An unwanted little boy searches for a family to call his own.
A celebration of an immigrant mother who becomes an American citizen.
Sarah Polk, the former first lady, plays matchmaker at Belmont.
An honest immigrant takes on a crooked ward politician.
Elizabeth Monroe's brave mission in Revolutionary France.
Jane McKimmon and the rural home-demonstration movement.
Sculptor Daniel Chester French and his Minute Man and Lincoln statues.
Lydia Darragh, the Quaker housewife who spied for Washington.
Anna Ella Carroll and the Tennessee Plan that helped win the Civil War.
The capture of Fort Ticonderoga and a reluctant patriot's stand.
Reformer Jacob Riis wins Theodore Roosevelt to the cause of the poor.
The beloved American actor Joseph Jefferson.
Scott Davis, the Deadwood stagecoach guard who outfaced the road agents.
A Chinese-American restaurateur's homecoming in New York.
Hiram Sibley and the building of the first transcontinental telegraph.
Christopher Ludwick, the patriot baker of the Revolution.
A stubborn man defends his right to wear a beard against a hostile town.
Jane Swisshelm, the fearless abolitionist editor of frontier Minnesota.
Blacksmith Thomas Davenport, the forgotten inventor of the electric motor.
Margaret Brent, colonial Maryland's first woman leader.
The formative youth of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
John Peter and Anna Zenger's landmark stand for a free press.
A disabled veteran finds new purpose as an underwater lumberjack.
A common man's fight for liberty in Revolutionary America.
Revolutionary spy Robert Townsend, torn between grief and duty.
A British spy who risks everything for love in America.
November 22, 1949
US Pilgrims
Anthony Lucas and the Spindletop gusher that launched the Texas oil boom.
Marie Hays Heiner, who broke through the silence of sudden deafness.
An adventure of the early American discovery of Antarctica.
December 20, 1949
The Du Pont Chorus
Lew Reese, who built an Ohio pottery works from nothing.
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