Freedom: A History of US
Documentary Series (2003)
Westward movement marked the early centuries of our country's history. To the west lay freedom and the opportunity for a better life for diverse groups in diverse times: the Pilgrims and Puritans in the seventeenth century, the frontiersmen in the eighteenth century, and the pioneers, prospectors, and politicians in the nineteenth century. Episode 3 traces the role of religion in bringing people to American shores and in justifying its expansion to land already inhabited.
