Country music is back at the Super Bowl. Vocal powerhouse Brandi Carlile will perform “America the Beautiful” ahead of the Feb. 8 game in Santa Clara, Calif. She is one of three pre-game performers ...

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 ...

Poet and Wellesley College scholar Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the Beautiful," in 1895. (Courtesy John de Graaf) "O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife ..." These words from ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and despite the threats to democracy, it resonates more than ever. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an ...