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

That November, Thomas Carr of Baltimore united lyrics and song in sheet music, under the title "The Star-Spangled Banner: A Patriotic Song." Key's timing could not have been better. Washington was ...

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 fleet of warships in Baltimore Harbor ...

I really love to sing and was undaunted by the musical and political challenges “The Star-Spangled Banner” so famously poses. I didn’t fear showing up in video montages of national anthems gone wrong, ...

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort ...