Also known as “America,” the song once served as an early national anthem for a young United States before “The Star Spangled Banner” was officially adopted in 1931. The hymn, however, can still be ...

Katharine Lee Bates penned the patriotic anthem ‘America the Beautiful’ – this is her tale of the power of poetry Massachusetts professor Katharine Lee Bates was mesmerized by the beauty of the U.S.

A chronological tour from Bradstreet, Freneau and Wheatley to Sherman Alexie, Barbara Kingsolver and Elizabeth Alexander, Poems for America: 125 Poems That Celebrate the American Experience hits many ...