It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

The basic story here is simple enough: they are taking down the Star-Spangled Banner, the giant American flag that hangs in the National Museum of American History, for a three-year conservation ...

Still, I suspect a vestige of doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag ... American Dream is the refusal to fight for it. This is the greatness of “The Star Spangled ...

"Flags have a hard life," says Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss, chief conservator of the Star-Spangled Banner Project at the National Museum of American History. "The amount of wind damage that happens ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... the word “slave.” To an American of 2017, the word is likely ...

The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle ... He watched “rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a ... In this June 2022 file photo, the American Flag is seen raised during Flag Day at the Salvation Army Harrington Hope Center.

It’s a song every American has heard ... t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of ...