My Country 'tis of Thee Author:multiple My Country 'tis of Thee does not pretend to be a formal history, a careful chronicle of sequenced events, analyzed and integrated into a neat, complete structure in which every event assumes its proper relationship with every other proper event recorded. Rather, it is a tribute to a great country and its people, voice largely in words of the pi... more »lgrims, explorers, pioneers, farmers, statesmen, school-masters, generals, militiamen, traders, American men and women who participated in its building.« less