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

Do you know what the national anthem of the USA is? If not, then check out this article to learn more about the national ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

Fortunately for posterity, he did not call it Mrs. Pickersgill's flag, but referred to a "star-spangled banner." Key wrote quickly that night—in part because he already had a tune in his head ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor ... doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag on that fateful September evening. If true, Key was not unlike ...

Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See blog for pointers on U.S. Flag Code, or learn more about the Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian's ...

Jackie Fred Thomas of the U.S. Navy was at attention, as he stood erect, with his eyes set on the flag fluttering at ... Harry Frazee ordered “The Star Spangled Banner” played to open each ...

Kathy Babers sings "The Star Spangled Banner" with Speaker Mike Johnson and others at the 2025 Community Awards Ceremony for Louisiana’s Fourth Congressional District Wednesday at BPCC.

The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to those ...

They didn’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 the free and the home of the brave?