The singer Kate Smith gave "God Bless America" its world premiere over the radio on Nov. 11, 1938 -- on what was then called Armistice Day -- the 20th anniversary of the end of World War I.

The recent discussion of whether the Irving Berlin song “God Bless America” [letters, June 5 and 8] is appropriate for singing today at Nationals baseball games has left out an important part ...

In 1940 he established the God Bless America Fund, which funnels royalties from the song (and a few more of the more than 1,000 he wrote) to the Boy Scouts’ and Girl Scouts’ Greater New York ...