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Dear America

Season 1 1999 - 2000
TV-Y7

  • 1999-03-14T05:00:00Z on HBO
  • 30m
  • 4h 30m (9 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Family, History
Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.

9 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-03-14T05:00:00Z

1x01 A Picture of Freedom

Series Premiere

1x01 A Picture of Freedom

  • 1999-03-14T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1x02 Dreams in the Golden Country

  • 1999-04-01T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1x03 A Journey to the New World

  • 1999-05-06T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1999-09-12T04:00:00Z

1x04 Standing in the Light

1x04 Standing in the Light

  • 1999-09-12T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1999-10-02T04:00:00Z

1x05 So Far From Home

1x05 So Far From Home

  • 1999-10-02T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1999-11-06T05:00:00Z

1x06 The Winter of Red Snow

1x06 The Winter of Red Snow

  • 1999-11-06T05:00:00Z30m

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

2000-02-07T05:00:00Z

1x07 Color Me Dark

1x07 Color Me Dark

  • 2000-02-07T05:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-04-10T04:00:00Z

1x08 A Line in the Sand

1x08 A Line in the Sand

  • 2000-04-10T04:00:00Z30m

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

1x09 When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

  • 2000-07-05T04:00:00Z30m

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.

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