[1] The quiz, whose slogan was "Your program about your country", involved five contestants (originally adults, changed to high school students by March 1949) answering viewer-submitted questions about American history.
A review of the program's initial episode in The New York Times described it as "a spirited and intelligent quiz show".
[4] Reviewer Jack Gould commended host Brown and the members of the panel: Millicent Fenwick of Vogue magazine, publisher Bennett Cerf, book critic Lewis Gannett, and 11-year-old Lind Nissen.
Gould found what he called "minor defects" in some aspects of production, noting that those might easily be corrected for future episodes.
[4] Americana was one of the first victims of wiping, a process that was continued by three of the four networks on the air at the time (DuMont rarely disposed of any material) through the late 1970s.