Series

Dear America

1999 · 2 seasons · 12 episodes · Ended · HBO

Drama, Family

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Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.

Episodes

  • S01E01A Picture of Freedom1999-03-1430m

    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.

  • S01E02Dreams in the Golden Country1999-04-0130m

    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.

  • S01E03A Journey to the New World1999-05-0630m

    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.

  • S01E04Standing in the Light1999-09-1230m

    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.

  • S01E05So Far From Home1999-10-0230m

    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.

  • S01E06The Winter of Red Snow1999-11-0630m

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

  • S01E07Color Me Dark2000-02-0730m

    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.

  • S01E08A Line in the Sand2000-04-1030m

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

  • S01E09When Will This Cruel War Be Over?2000-07-0530m

    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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