'SEA TO SHINING SEA' Getty Images/Heritage Auctions LIFESTYLE Meet the American who wrote 'America the Beautiful,' Katharine Lee Bates, professor-poet prayed for unity
Getty Images Meet the American Who... Meet the American who stitched the Stars & Stripes, Betsy Ross, reputed wartime seductress
Getty Images/National World War II Museum LIFESTYLE Meet the American who 'won the war for us': Andrew Jackson Higgins, World War II New Orleans boatbuilder
MDT/restless-viking.com Meet the American Who... Meet the American who created highway rest areas, Allan Williams, small-town engineer
Alamy Stock/Getty Images Meet the American Who... Meet the American who cooked up ketchup, Dr. James Mease, patriot with passion for 'love apples'
LIFESTYLE 1 hour ago Meet the American who made us flip for hamburgers, Louis Lassen, Danish immigrant street-wagon cook Danish immigrant Louis Lassen of New Haven, Connecticut, is cited as the inventor of the hamburger sandwich by the Library of Congress. Some sources dispute the claim; here's his story.
LIFESTYLE June 28 Meet the American who wrote 'America the Beautiful,' Katharine Lee Bates, professor-poet prayed for unity Massachusetts poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" after seeing the landscape from the top of Pike's Peak. Her patriotic anthem is a prayer for national unity.
Meet the American Who... June 21 Meet the American who created highway rest areas, Allan Williams, small-town engineer Allan Williams, a highway engineer in Ionia County, Michigan, created the first roadside rest area in 1929. His simple idea became an American phenomenon.
Meet the American Who... June 14 Meet the American who stitched the Stars & Stripes, Betsy Ross, reputed wartime seductress Betsy Ross is credited with creating the first Stars & Stripes American flag. Her real contributions to the American Revolution are perhaps much more dramatic than the flagmaking legend.
LIFESTYLE June 7 Meet the American who 'won the war for us': Andrew Jackson Higgins, World War II New Orleans boatbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins, native of Nebraska, designed and built in New Orleans the famous amphibious landing craft used by the U.S. and Allies to fight and win World War II.
Meet the American Who... May 31 Meet the American who invented windshield wipers, Mary Anderson, Alabama entrepreneur Mary Anderson was born in Alabama months after the tragedy of the Civil War. She helped her state rebuild, then went on to create windshield wipers — long before auto titans realized the potential.
Meet the American Who... May 24 Meet the American who cooked up ketchup, Dr. James Mease, patriot with passion for 'love apples' Dr. James Mease was a Philadelphia intellectual born to a veteran of the American Revolution. In 1812, he published the first recipe for ketchup, a signature taste of America.
LIFESTYLE May 17 Meet the American who invented sliced bread: Otto Rohwedder, hard-luck hawkeye Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged — sliced bread — in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.
Meet the American Who... May 10 Meet the American who created bubble gum, Walter Diemer, home-kitchen chemist outwitted scientists Walter Diemer, a 23-year-old accountant for Fleer Co. of Philadelphia, invented bubble gum in 1928. The secret formula had defied the best food scientists for decades.
LIFESTYLE May 3 Meet the American who created the Kentucky Derby, Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., born of pioneers The Kentucky Derby debuted in 1875, the horse race a vision of Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., grandson of American explorer William Clark in hopes of reviving commonwealth's economy.
