Over 50 weeks starting in July 2025, "GMA" will visit all 50 states, leading up to the nation's 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Each week, a “GMA” anchor or correspondent will visit a new state, ...

Brandi Carlile opened ABC's America250 celebration with a moving performance of "America the Beautiful," turning the Statue of Liberty into the emotional center of America's 250th birthday.

America the Beautiful: Quotation by Katharine Lee Bates at the Veterans Memorial in Memorial Park, Provo, Utah. Credit: Wikimedia Commons One mild October evening in 2001, my ABC News pals Kayce and ...

Singer Ray Charles released his moving version of "America the Beautiful" in 1972, pouring his soul into the classic American song.

Days after Alan Jackson‘s all-star farewell concert in Nashville, the country legend appeared as part of the lineup for PBS’ annual Independence Day concert special, A Capitol Fourth. Ahead of the ...

It feels like a good time, as well as the appropriate holiday weekend, to be reminded of the glories of North America, the focus of “America the Beautiful,” a six-part paean to “the wildest, most ...