By the late 1800s, poet Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, wrote the poem “Pikes Peak,” which was later published in the 1895 Fourth of July edition of the church periodical, The Congregationalist. At first, she renamed the poem “America,” and shortly after being published, her words transformed into the patriotic classic “America the Beautiful.” The […]
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