On July 4, 1895 — 130 years ago today — Wellesley College English professor Katharine Lee Bates published a poem inspired by a cross-country railroad trip and a climb to the top of Pikes Peak in ...

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 ...

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 ...

It barely cracked the R&B chart in 1972. Now it plays at every Super Bowl.

One mild October evening in 2001, my ABC News pals Kayce and Peter Jennings hosted a party in their elegant New York apartment to celebrate the book I’d just published, a history of the song, “America ...

We mark the birthday of Katharine Lee Bates, the author of the poem, "America the Beautiful." She was a writer, teacher, anti-war activist and campaigner for women, immigrants, African Americans and ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — Windham World Affairs Council will screen the film “From Sea to Shining Sea: Katherine Lee Bates and the Story of America the Beautiful” ...

America’s natural wonders provide places of restoration, reinvention and triumph — where author Cheryl Strayed found healing hiking the enchanted Pacific Crest Trail, Theodore Roosevelt cultivated a ...