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

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... the word is likely to mean one thing only: the system of chattel ...

As NFL players and owners push back against President Trump’s remarks about the national anthem, here’s a quick refresher on how “The Star Spangled Banner ... set on the flag fluttering ...

The Star-Spangled Banner's meaning, of course ... a symbol of their nation and the ideals it stands for. Each American flag bears some symbolic weight, but this one has endured for nearly two ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to ...

In time the banner would take on larger meaning, set on a path to glory ... now a National Historic Landmark known as the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "Ships were coming and going from around ...

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 ...

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind ... 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 ...