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 ...

Poet and Wellesley College scholar Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the Beautiful," in 1895. (Courtesy John de Graaf) "O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife ..." These words from ...

Brandi Carlile described her interpretation of “America the Beautiful” with lyrics that “reads more like a prayer than a boast.” The folk-rock heroine also said in her pregame news conference that she ...

In the minutes leading up to the Super Bowl LX showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, an 11-time Grammy winner born and raised in the Seattle area stepped onto the field to ...

The Grammy Award-winning singer was one of several performances ahead of Sunday’s game. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor Brandi Carlile took to the Super Bowl LX stage at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday ...