"Look it up!" The infernal cry of generations of parents and teachers, demanding that children  master the spelling and meaning of difficult words. All of us were forced to learn about Noah Webster by being sent to his dictionary, but just exactly who was this revolutionary wordsmith of early America? And what was he trying to accomplish, respelling words and adding new ones to the lexicon of the young republic, words like "Americanism"? 

Find out in this gripping episode as we journey to his boyhood home in Hartford, Connecticutt, and talk to a young lady who changes into the garb of an early American girl for us, to give us a tour Noah Webster's life and times at his haunting ancestral home.