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 ...
We mark the birthday of Katharine Lee Bates, the author of the poem, "America the Beautiful." She was a writer, teacher, anti-war activist and campaigner for women, immigrants, African Americans and ...