Cavalcade of America

- Season 2

(1953)

The famous American whale hunter, Sam Mulford, goes to England in 1712 and takes his complaint about the English tax on whales off the Long Island coast to the royal court.

During the Revolutionary War, romance-seeking British General Prescott arranges to meet Dorothea Meadows in an unprotected house in Rhode Island. He is captured by Miss Meadows' co-conspirator, Colonel Barton.

During the Revolutionary War, messengers vital to the cause of the Colonies are hidden by Nancy Hart beneath the floor of her cabin in Georgia. When the safety of one messenger is threatened, she uses cunning and force to protect him.

A dramatization of the 1865 meeting of General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and the surrender of Lee's army to Grant's army, ending the four years of war between the Union and the Confederacy.

A high school science teacher helps develop a better America for younger generations through his efforts in the field of science education.

An historical drama about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803

In 1870s New York, Thomas Nast, known for his drawings of Santa Claus, creates a series of cartoons about the corrupt politician, Boss Tweed.

Daniel Webster, tormented by memories of selfish deeds near the end of his life, is comforted by friends who point out that his constructive acts will be remembered.

A beautiful, gifted actress serves as a spy for the Union during the Civil War.

The neurotic and brilliant Benedict Arnold, General in the Revolutionary Army, attempts to deliver West Point to His Majesty's Forces.

Story of the rise and fall of the Pony Express.

Horace Greeley, America's Titan of the Press, keeps a vow to Abraham Lincoln for leniency toward Jefferson Davis and the South.

Painter Charles Wilson Peale risks his career and possessions to excavate and reconstruct a fossilized mastodon, the greatest skeleton ever seen in his day.

Dr. Joseph Goldberger fights disbelief and prejudice to conquer the dreaded disease, pellagra.

The captain of an American ship, anchored in the Turkish port of Smyrna, risks a battle with three Austrian ships when he demands the release of an Austrian-born prisoner, who has applied for American citizenship.

Dramatizes the life of Henry William Stiegel, who came to America from Germany and rose from a worker in an iron foundry to be head of a large glass factory.

A historical drama about Francis Huger, an American medical student, and Erich Bollman, a young German physician, who attempt to rescue Lafayette from an Austrian prison in 1794.

The Culpers, famous spies, enable reinforcements to land in Rhode Island during the American Revolution.

British forces raid Monticello in an attempt to capture Thomas Jefferson.

A dramatization of the efforts of Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen, in particular in Dodge City, Kansas; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Tombstone, Arizona.

Dramatizes the life of William Penn in the 17th century, from his early interest in the Society of Friends, to his ultimate success in founding a New World colony where religious freedom became a reality.

Young Andrew Jackson in South Carolina at the time of the American Revolution joins the militia and engages in guerrilla fighting against the British.

Carl Shurz escapes a Prussian firing squad in 1848 and comes to America to continue his fight for freedom.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Matthew Fontaine Maury suggests the scientific charting of ocean and wind currents.

A dramatization of Theodore Judah's attempts to unify the country with a transcontinental railroad system.

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Newspaper editor James King crusades for clean government during San Francisco's lawless days in the 1850s.

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Drama about the historic gusher that opened one of Texas' biggest oil fields in 1901.

In 1911, Cora Wilson Stewart, a county superintendent and a teacher in a one-room school succeeds in establishing a night class for adults in a backward section of Kentucky.

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A woman in command of a ship races with it to California in an effort to prevent an Indian uprising.

The struggles for liberty and human dignity in pre-Revolutionary America.