Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, wrote the lyrics as a poem in 1893 after a train trip to Colorado Springs. The view from atop Pikes Peak gave her the line "purple ...
Ahead of Memorial Day weekend and the country's 250th birthday this summer, one patriotic song keeps showing up at big American events: Ray Charles' 1972 version of "America the Beautiful." Charles ...
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