“America the Beautiful”

Cultural

An American patriotic hymn from the nineteenth century. It begins, “O beautiful for spacious skies.”

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Upbeat new ads promoting travel to the U.S. under the theme “America the Beautiful” are set to begin running next week in Europe and Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Underwood is expected to sing “America the Beautiful” before Trump is sworn into office for the second time.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2025

As they stood around waiting, they held wineglasses and sang “America the Beautiful” and “God Bless the USA.”

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2024

Everyone stood up and sang “America the Beautiful” and saluted him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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