The story of Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, and Sarah Taylor, daughter of the future president of the United States. Their love was fated to end in tragedy.
A historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and his wife, Eliza, which resulted in Houston's resignation of the governorship of Tennessee.
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, uses himself as a guinea pig and is inoculated with the germs of small pox in a heroic effort to establish control of the disease.
A pre-Revolutionary War drama. The freedom of the press is upheld through the trial and acquittal of John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper publisher imprisoned for printing the truth about corruption of the British administration.
John Paul Jones undertakes the first hostile invasion of England since 1066 as he endeavors to prove to all the world that the American Navy and the American government are to be reckoned with.
English law in 1790 forbade taking written information on the cotton spinning machine from the country. Samuel Slater, however, memorized the plans and went to America to try to build a machine from memory.
Dramatizes the events which led to the decision of the pirate Jean Lafitte to join Andrew Jackson in the defense of New Orleans against the English forces in 1814.
In 1866, Teddy Roosevelt goes west to begin anew after great personal tragedies and, undaunted by a blizzard, pursues and captures three outlaws in the Dakota Bad Lands.
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.
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.
Painter Charles Wilson Peale risks his career and possessions to excavate and reconstruct a fossilized mastodon, the greatest skeleton ever seen in his day.