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

"The Star-Spangled Banner" turns 200 years old Sunday. Did you know that the key to understanding its familiar notes and rhythms passes through Salem? When the sun rose Sept. 14, 1814, Francis ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

Key was inspired to write it after he saw the American flag ... Over the last few years, there have been cries to discard ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ completely. Its author, as well as being a poet, ...

First and most obvious, the Star Spangled Banner is a song composed with a fairly extensive vocal range. When performed in the key of ‘B flat’, the melodic range of the song is from a ‘B ...

The Star-Spangled Banner was penned by Francis Scott Key as he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the Battle of Baltimore on September 13-14, 1814. These words would ...

Francis Scott Key may have immortalized this unspoken ... This is the greatness of “The Star Spangled Banner”. It sings Americanism more deeply and more succinctly than any other ode.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry after a ...

named after the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and part of the very fabric of Baltimore. Built near the spot where Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of a fort that inspired ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...