Photograph by Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic Image Collection ... composing a poem. “America, the Beautiful,” Bates’s poem, set to music, became the United States’ unofficial anthem ...

One of the new America the Beautiful Quarters for 2020 showcases the National Park of American Samoa. United States Mint The ... 25 cent piece of the 2020 collection in November.

"America the Beautiful," then, reads in part as a plea and a prayer for the United States to use its material wealth for the common good: "May God thy gold refine / Till all success be nobleness ...