U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are sculpted on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. REUTERS Katharine Lee Bates, a 33-year-old English ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants a song about faith and resilience long revered in the Black community to become the national hymn and help unite the country after centuries of ...

Katharine Lee Bates, a 33-year-old English literature teacher at Wellesley College, was on “a merry expedition up Pike’s Peak” in Colorado in 1893 when she looked out “over the sea-like expanse of ...

“God Bless America” is, by contrast, as easy to follow as the star from above that it invokes. Berlin wrote the song in 1918 for a Ziegfeld-type revue called “Yip, Yip, Yaphank,” but put it aside as ...