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

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided ... and based on the tune of an 18th century drinking song. Rather than address these true, patently false, and half-true claims, it would ...

but referred to a "star-spangled banner." Key wrote quickly that night—in part because he already had a tune in his head, a popular English drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven," which ...

set to the tune of a British drinking song, immortalized as “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The flag itself, enshrined since 2008 in a special chamber at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the ... Anacreon in Heaven,” a popular drinking song. The poem had four stanzas, although ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... who wrote the words to the song during the War of 1812, was defaced ...

Secondly, look at the song itself. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle that was significant in the American History, the War of 1812. The words describe a battle. With a ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.