Cavalcade of America — 1951
44 episodes broadcast in 1951.
January 2, 1951
An American from France
A fiftieth-anniversary tribute to the Spindletop oil gusher at Beaumont.
The military genius of Stonewall Jackson.
Charles Martin Hall, who unlocked cheap aluminum at twenty-two.
A collection of lesser-known stories about Abraham Lincoln.
Editor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune scores a big scoop.
The invention of nylon in the DuPont laboratories.
Mary Murray, whose hospitality helped Washington's army slip past the British.
Samuel Mulford, the cantankerous colonist who fought a tax on whaling.
The Faith Cabin Libraries that brought books to the rural South.
Ellsworth Statler's rise from bellhop to hotel magnate.
Tristram Coffin, the would-be king of colonial Nantucket.
Christopher Sholes and the invention of the typewriter.
A tiny Martha's Vineyard newspaper's determined fight to publish.
Naval hero Commodore David Porter and his valiant losing fight.
Abigail Scott Duniway's fight for woman suffrage in the Northwest.
Eddie Rickenbacker's ordeal adrift on a Pacific life raft.
The time young Abraham Lincoln nearly fought a duel.
Annie Goodrich, who raised the standards of American nursing.
General Mark Clark's secret submarine rendezvous in North Africa.
Nathaniel Bacon, the rebel who defied colonial Virginia a century early.
John Brashear, the workingman who ground lenses to study the stars.
Jade Snow Wong and her coming of age in Chinese-American San Francisco.
Conductor Theodore Thomas, who brought orchestral music to America.
A combat soldier's story, echoing the spirit of the Liberty Bell.
How Corporal James Slayton earned the Medal of Honor.
Army doctors confront the hidden wounds of battle fatigue.
Julia Ward Howe and the writing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Dr. Norman Bethune and the invention of the mobile blood bank.
Dr. Benjamin Duggar's discovery of the wonder drug Aureomycin at seventy.
Washington and the army at their lowest ebb at Valley Forge.
Young Abraham Lincoln and his first love, Ann Rutledge.
A Christmas concert by the DuPont Chorus.
An orphaned boy fights to keep his five younger siblings together.
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