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Aired 1935 – 1953

The Cavalcade of America featured events from American history, usually dramatizing the positive aspects of the nation’s past. Additionally, the show attempted to end criticism of its sponsor, the Du Pont Company. The corporation was viewed in a negative light because of profits made from producing gunpowder during World War I. Throughout the years, actors and actresses from Broadway and Hollywood were featured. Click here to read more about Cavalcade Of America, The

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
06.16.1941	annie oakley	+ Red net. "Annie Oakley". The story of the gal...
06.09.1941	young andrew jackson	+ Andrew Jackson was a hard fisted young lawyer in the wilderness, who fought hard for the American ...
06.02.1941	anna ella carroll	+ Red net. "The Woman In Lincoln's Cabinet". The story is also known as "Anna Ella Carroll: The Wom...
05.26.1941	johns hopkins	+ Red net. "Johns Hopkins". The story of the Quaker who was determined to amass a fortune and who f...
05.19.1941	david crockett	+ Red net. "David Crockett". The frontier legend tells his own life story to other legends in Heave...
05.12.1941	theodosia burr	+ Red net. "Theodosia Burr". The story of Aaron Burr's loyal daughter who supported her father's p...
05.05.1941	the trials and triumphs of horatio alger	+ Red net. "The Trials and Triumphs Of Horatio Alger". The life story of the literary inventor of t...
04.28.1941	the heart and the fountain	+ Red net. "The Heart and The Foundation". The story of Margaret Fuller, a pioneering woman reporte...
04.21.1941	henry bergh founder of the a s p c a	+ Red net. "Henry Bergh, Founder Of The A. S. P. C. A.". The story of how the Society formed to pr...
04.14.1941	a passage to georgia	+ Red net. "A Passage To Georgia". The story of James Oglethorpe, who started out to reform the Bri...
04.07.1941	ode to a nightingale	+ Red net. "Ode To A Nightingale". The story of John Keats, the great English poet, and his tragic ...
03.31.1941	edwin booth	+ Red net. "Edwin Booth". The story of the famous actor, brother of the man who shot Abraham Lincol...
03.26.1941	down to the sea	+ Red net. "Down To The Sea". The story of Herman Melville's adventures in the South Seas, aboard w...
03.19.1941	i sing a new world	+ Red net. "I Sing A New World". A radio fantasy about the spirit of Walt Whitman in America. Beau...
03.12.1941	black rust	+ Red net. "Black Rust". The story of Mark Carleton's around the world search for a variety of whea...
03.05.1941	voice in the wilderness	+ Red net. "Voice In The Wilderness". CommercialOne evening late in the year 1667, in a coffee house...
02.26.1941	edgar allan poe	+ Red net. "Edgar Allan Poe". A well-done biography of the somber, unhappy life of the poet and wri...
02.19.1941	plain mr president	+ Red net. "Plain Mr. President". George Washington journeys from Mount Vernon to New York to weari...
02.12.1941	abraham lincoln the war years	+ Red net. "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years". The program uses local talent from "The Little Theatr...
02.05.1941	henry clay of kentucky	+ Red net. "Henry Clay Of Kentucky". The system cue has been deleted. Henry Clay tries to compromis...
01.29.1941	dr franklin takes it easy	+ Red net. "Doctor Franklin Takes It Easy". How the "lazy" Ben Franklin was motivated to Today's Ca...
01.22.1941	wait for the morning	+ Red net. "Wait For The Morning". The biography of poet Emily Dickenson and of her great love. To...
01.15.1941	as a man thinketh	+ Red net. "As A Man Thinketh". The story of Thomas Cooper, the man who tested the Sedition Act of ...
01.08.1941	mightier than the sword	+ Red net. "Mightier Than The Sword". The story of how Thomas Nast used his political cartoons to e...
01.01.1941	will rogers	+ Red net. "Will Rogers". A lively biography of the great American humorist. The Cavalcade of Amer...

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That was my favorite show.

Carol

This anthology program was sponsored by DuPont on radio by CBS and NBC from 1935 to 1953, television from 1952 to 1957. The series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company radio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.

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