University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor Mark Clague talked about the meaning of the four verses in The Star-Spangled Banner.

The US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, is one of the world’s most iconic anthems. But what are the words and history?

After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an ...

Fascinating facts about Francis Scott Key, the writing of what would become America's national anthem, and the War of 1812 ...

Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812. He was a white supremacist like many others, and felt that blacks were morally and psychologically inferior and that ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as the official anthem of the United States until 1931, though it was already popular and had already been used by several American ...

What they may not know is that “The Star-Spangled Banner” as sung today is a truncated version of a four-verse War of 1812 song.

In 1931, Congress passed a bill to make "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States.

Why is the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ so hard to sing? In short, the national anthem is so hard to sing because of its remarkable range between high and low notes.

What hypocrisy? In 1814, when Francis Scott Key penned the stirring lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” slavery had been operating in this country for almost 200 years.

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.

When you think of anthems, one really big one probably comes to mind. We’ve heard “Star Spangled Banner” a thousand times, but how did the song come to be known as the United States ...