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

When they are asked to sing "The Star Spangled Banner," "suddenly they're presented with a song with an enormous melody," he explained.

“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 ...

The Star-Spangled Banner, one of the best-known national anthems in the world, has roots far more rowdy than patriotic, writes Barrymore Laurence Scherer for The Wall Street Journal.

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter of patriotic musical activity during the decades following our victorious conclusion ...

The Star-Spangled Banner Preservation, 1914, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History In 1878, New York stockbroker Eben Appleton inherited the Star-Spangled Banner, the very flag that ...

Summary " In September, 2014, Baltimore and the United States will mark the bicentennial of the event that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." But Francis Scott Key's poem, set to a British drinking ...

Woman's 'Star-Spangled Banner' Rendition Stuns Crowd, Catapults Her to Viral Stardom Many have tried and failed. Then came Star Swain.

Beyoncé opened her show with "Ameriican Requiem" before serenading the crowd with her Beatles cover "Blackbiird" and the Star Spangled Banner.

Singer Nezza tearfully recalled her experience of singing the Spanish-language version of the “Star Spangled Banner” at a Los Angeles Dodgers game after the baseball team told her to sing in ...