Micah Meadowcroft is research director of the Center for Renewing America and a contributing editor of The American Conservative.He was previously the online editor of TAC, a 2021-22 Robert Novak ...

America has stunningly beautiful geography, and plenty of other countries do not. As Americans, we should consider that something worth thanking God for. The second verse is about people, but it ...

We need "America the Beautiful," just like every other country needs an anthem, to evoke a sense of collective belonging and ...

After slashing national park budgets and staff, the Trump administration has issued a pair of executive orders with the ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

Ashland Craft Becomes First Country Act to Perform 'America the Beautiful' at WrestleMania The Voice alum is a longtime WWE fan who competed as a member of Miley Cyrus' team on season 13 of the ...

America is so special a country that a whole theory was invented to account for its many differences from other nations: the theory of "American exceptionalism." And this very exceptionalism, I think, ...

In 1979, Pope John Paul II recited its fervent prayer — “America, America, God shed his grace on thee” — as he descended from his plane on his first trip to this country.

America the Beautiful. By Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) Music by Samuel Augustus Howe (1847-1903) ... Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America!

Darryl Roberts' "America the Beautiful" tackles a big and provocative subject -- America's obsession with physical beauty -- and gets utterly lost in the process.

“America, the Beautiful,” Bates’s poem, set to music, became the United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country. There are plenty of better poems about America, the land and ...

Written by a feminist poet who struggled with bouts of depression, the song is an aspirational counterpoint to "The Star-Spangled Banner" — calling on America to use its riches for the common good.