“America the Beautiful” was born in Colorado. When Katharine Lee Bates stood atop Pikes Peak in 1893, she gave us words that still define who we are: spacious skies, purple mountain majesties, from ...
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 ...
She says, 'The through line to being queer and being a representative of a marginalized community, and being put on the largest stage in America to acknowledge the fraught and tender hope that this ...