"I gazed on the mountains in grandeur majestic, I gazed on the vales—they were fruitful and fair; I gazed with d…"

"E pluribus unum, the constructive principle of federation, In God We Trust, the recognition of God's limitless father…"

"For two years after “I Want to Hold Your Hand” topped the U.S. charts in February 1964, the only sound that mattered …"

"Today, the term “the British Invasion” is usually employed to describe (and market) the triumphal epoch of the Beatle…"

"Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni."

", n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is…"

"I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American poi…"

"It would seem that in our great unendowed, unfurnished, unentertained and unentertaining continent, where we all sit …"

"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,... The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at wor…"

"The character of the American literature is, generally speaking, pretty justly appreciated in Europe. The immense exh…"