Fascinating facts about Francis Scott Key, the writing of what would become America's national anthem, and the War of 1812 ...

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter of patriotic musical activity during the decades following our victorious conclusion of the ...

Artist Dan Deacon performed a controversial auto-tune version of the “Star Spangled Banner” before the first game of Thursday ...

It was an eventful start to the MLB All-Star Game festivities at Truist Park in Atlanta, beginning with the announcement of ...

The original Star-Spangled Banner was raised in triumph at the end of the perilous fight . . . a battle watched o'er the ramparts by Francis Scott Key, detained aboard a British ship nearby.

Before “The Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the national anthem in 1931, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” was sometimes used as a traditional ceremonial song. Four versus of the anthem.

In 1931, Congress passed a bill to make "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States. But the decision was far from simple. Among the points of contention was the mu… ...

A poem set to music 203 years ago has been a staple of U.S. sports events for a century. But for the fan, the meaning of the "The Star-Spangled Banner" often depends on who is singing or not ...

Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.

In what’s become an Independence Day tradition, Cowboy State Daily outdoors writer Mark Heinz plays “The Star Spangled Banner ...

Making this even more interesting is the fact that “The Star-Spangled Banner” – which borrowed its difficult melody from a “To Anacreon in Heaven,” a British song about boozing and ...

Every school kid used to know the story behind America’s National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. How, on September 13, 1814, British warships fired a ...