Season 1 - Dear America

1. A Picture of Freedom

In the pre-Civil War South, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write. She determines to help and teach other slaves.

1999-03-14 • 30 min

2. Dreams in the Golden Country

A Russian Jewish immigrant girl lives with her family in a tenement on the Lower East Side. She strives to learn English and pursue her dream of acting.

1999-04-01 • 30 min

3. A Journey to the New World

Mem, a 12-year-old Pilgrim, has just arrived in the New World. With the help of an American Indian, she endures her first year at Plymouth Colony.

1999-05-06 • 30 min

4. Standing in the Light

A young Quaker girl captured by an Indian tribe falls in love with a handsome warrior and wonders if she will be able to return to her old life.

1999-09-12 • 30 min

5. So Far From Home

Mary, a teenage immigrant from Ireland, finds that working in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts is not what she'd envisioned as new life in America.

1999-10-02 • 30 min

6. The Winter of Red Snow

During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.

1999-11-06 • 30 min

7. Color Me Dark

A young African-American girl moves north with her family to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south.

2000-02-07 • 30 min

8. A Line in the Sand

In this fictional account of Texan history, a young pioneer girl writes in her diary of the fight for freedom against the Mexicans.

2000-04-10 • 30 min

9. When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.

2000-07-05 • 30 min