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

All the hoopla about the wonderful vocalist, Beyonce, lip or not lip synching our national anthem, made me think about the song itself. First and most obvious, the Star Spangled Banner is a song ...

The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

‘Oh, say can you see...’, goes ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. But what are the words to the rest of the US national anthem? Discover the history and lyrics to the well-known anthem below. The music was ...

So why does it keep happening? Well, in part because the song is notoriously difficult to sing. Why is the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ so hard to sing? In short, the national anthem is so hard to ...

Eventually one paper would take creative liberty and rename the song "The Star-Spangled Banner." It wasn't until 1931 that the song became the national anthem, when President Herbert Hoover signed ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” is so ubiquitous in American public life that it’s difficult to hear the song as a song—a living, breathing entity that thrives when reinterpreted by skilled ...

The rousing Star-Spangled Banner is arguably the US's best known and most loved song. But less well-known is the history behind it, and the fact that it was the target of vehement, outraged ...

During World War I, the Massachusetts Legislature had narrowly passed Chapter 264, Section 9, which prohibits the performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” as dance music, as part of a medley ...

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.