Cavalcade of America — 1950
44 episodes broadcast in 1950.
Benjamin Franklin matches wits in a famous meeting of the Revolution.
Confederate boy-spy Sam Davis, honor bound to his cause.
Nell Donnelly, who built a Kansas City dressmaking empire.
Eli Whitney turns from the cotton gin to muskets and mass production.
The birth of American fire insurance amid a great city blaze.
A selection of great American prose and poetry, from Whitman to Sandburg.
Two young Georgians turn worn-out cotton fields into opportunity.
The darkest days of the Revolution at Valley Forge.
Immigrant inventor Joe Gerber and his simple, world-changing idea.
Painter Charles Willson Peale and his pioneering natural history museum.
Theodore Judah and his obsessive dream of a transcontinental railroad.
The Peabody sisters of Salem and Mary's search for love.
A WWII tank crew inspired by the ghost of cavalry raider Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Six momentous days in the life of a Confederate battlefield doctor.
Nathan Straus and his crusade for pasteurized milk to save children.
Rose Knox, who ran the Knox Gelatine company for forty years.
William Mahone, the determined engineer who bridged Virginia's swamps by rail.
Lee Underwood and the building of the American food-canning business.
May 9, 1950
Never Marry a Ranger
George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest and founder of Louisville.
A portrait of Thomas Jefferson and the great loves of his life.
Young Vinnie Ream, the sculptor who won the right to model Lincoln.
Dr. Henry Rose Carter and the long fight against yellow fever.
Lottie Moon, the beautiful Confederate spy, and her redemption.
General Glancy's humane effort to build a hospital for the needy.
A young immigrant girl finds her voice speaking for democracy.
John Adams defends the British soldiers of the Boston Massacre.
The discovery of a mountain of iron ore in the Venezuelan jungle.
Frederic Tudor, the Ice King who shipped New England ice around the world.
Cyrus McCormick and the reaper that transformed American farming.
Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Revolution.
A family weathers the Depression by going into the furniture business.
The heroic story of a devoted nurse named Emma.
Dr. William Burton and the cracking process that doubled America's gasoline.
Mary Anderson, the young stage star who charmed America.
Eliza McCardle, who taught and married the tailor Andrew Johnson.
Eliphalet Dennison and the paper-goods company he built.
Dr. J. Marion Sims and the founding of the first women's hospital.
The Pilgrims and the signing of the Mayflower Compact.
Winnie Davis, the Confederacy's Daughter, and her forbidden romance.
Pierre L'Enfant and his grand design for the city of Washington.
A young Lieutenant Ulysses Grant in love.
A Christmas concert by the DuPont Chorus.
A Union spy's perilous mission around the battle of Chickamauga.
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