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Stories of America PBS Children's History Series with (1976)

1976 · Classic TV series

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_. Stories of America: The interconnectedness of all things is a fundamental part of reading motivation projects. Although GPN's Reading Rainbow claims to have invented that idea, Stories of America with host Ann McGregor got there first. It was 1976, America's bicentennial year, and WVIZ-TV of Cleveland wanted something more out of a series aimed at delivering American history, They decided to combine history with reading. The result was Stories of America. Hosting was the familiar face of Ann McGregor, who had enlivened Picture Book Park and Tilson's Bookshop some two years earlier. Stories of America resembled more of a story reading than a history lesson, but it also introduced other elements that became standard Reading Rainbow procedure. There were occasional film sequences, dramatizations, and even an animation. All told, the 32-part Stories of America series ran some 14 years on WVIZ-TV. The series was reprised - and shown again: starting in 1998. The federal funding that supports Public Media has been eliminated in July of 2025 by the Republicans. Your PBS viewing experience is going away. ) Episodes: 01. Discover America 03. America is Named 04. Pocahontas 05. Children of the Mayflower 06. John Billington and Squanto 07. New Amsterdam 08. Ben Franklin 09. George Washington 10. Daniel Boone 11. The Start of a War 12. Needles and Bread 13. Indian Summer 14. The Growers 15. Lewis and Clark 16. Davy Crockett 17. Robert Fulton 18. The Oregon Trail 19. Gretchen Goes West…

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