The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States. But where do the lyrics come from, and what’s the history of the anthem? ‘Oh, say can you see...’, goes ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ ...

The Johns Hopkins University has a near-pristine copy that it acquired in 1977 from the collector and donor Lester Levy, along with other “Star Spangled Banner ... down the lyrics of his ...

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 ...

That’s the short version of how “The Star-Spangled Banner” came to be ... the land of the free and the home of the brave. These lyrics are a clear reference to the Colonial Marines ...

Mangled lyrics and cracked voices aside, "The Star-Spangled Banner” -- written in Baltimore Sept. 14, 1814, as poem “Defense of Fort M'Henry,” by lawyer Francis Scott Key -- has been the ...

Here's a look at five things you didn't know about the "The Star Spangled Banner." quicklist: 1title: Lyrics Come From a Poemtext: "The Star Spangled Banner" was written in Baltimore on Sept.

will wear football uniforms inspired by the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore and the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” when it hosts West Virginia at Byrd Stadium on Saturday ...

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is celebrating another birthday. It was 190 years ago this week -- during the Battle of Baltimore -- that Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics that later became the U.S ...

“The Star Spangled Banner”, a song sung proudly at every Super Bowl, actually originally came from England. The melody to which Francis Scott Key set the lyrics was derived from “To Anacreon ...

Is it the lyrics, the music, the writer? When you think of anthems, one really big one probably comes to mind. We’ve heard Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner” millions of times ...