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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.

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Season 1

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A Picture of Freedom
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/1999
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.
Director: Helaine Head
Writer: Unknown
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Dreams in the Golden Country
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/1999
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.
Director: Shawn Levy
Writer: Unknown
8.0/102 votes
A Journey to the New World
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/1999
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.
Director: Don McCutcheon
Writer: Unknown
4.2/104 votes
Standing in the Light
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/12/1999
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.
Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis
Writer: Unknown
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So Far From Home
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1999
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Winter of Red Snow
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1999
During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Color Me Dark
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/2000
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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A Line in the Sand
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/2000
In this fictional account of Texan history, a young pioneer girl writes in her diary of the fight for freedom against the Mexicans.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/5/2000
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown