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

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 ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

After almost two centuries, the ... the Star-Spangled Banner, as it had become known, returns to center stage this month with the reopening of the renovated National Museum of American History ...

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 ... release of a group of American prisoners.

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 ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... the word “slave.” To an American of 2017, the word is likely ...

“The Star Spangled Banner ... liberty The American Revolution had secured. Still, I suspect a vestige of doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag on that fateful ...

It’s a song every American has heard ... t know until 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’er the land of ...