(See photos of 51 Miss America’s Teen contestants in the gallery at the top of this post. This year’s list includes Miss Puerto Rico’s Teen, as well as competitors from all 50 states.) ...

"We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance," Gretchen Carlson said of the Miss America competition Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE.

We agree to mention the $25,000 Scholarship awards which will be given sixteen 1948 Miss America contestants at the National Finals, in all promotional material used in conducting our preliminary ...

The Miss Teen Volunteer America pageant returned to the Carl Perkins Civic Center on Thursday evening, where 51 young women are competing for the coveted crown. The preliminary night kicked off ...

There was even a “Rule 7,” abandoned in 1940, that stated that Miss America contestants had to be “of good health and of the white race.” The winner spent the year doing community service ...

Miss Virginia Camille Schrier earned the title of Miss America 2020 on Thursday night, beating out 50 other contestants for the prestigious crown after performing the show’s first-ever science ...

In 1921 the winner of the first Inter-City Beauty Contest was crowned "Miss America," and she won a first place prize of $100. The first pageant had only seven contestants from cities along the ...