The Star-Spangled Banner, one of the best-known national anthems in the world, has roots far more rowdy than patriotic, ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner is a symbol of American history that ranks with the Statue of Liberty and the Charters of Freedom,” said Brent D. Glass, the museum’s then-director, in 2007.

After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an 18th-century English drinking song, captured the patriotic picture of the American ...

Today, June 14, is Flag Day. I bet most people don’t know that such a day exists; and if they did, I doubt they put much significance in it. Until Sept. 11, 2001, not many American flags waved ...

The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Star-spangled banner still waves boldly as always, Flag Day reminds Americans From representing 13 colonies in 1777 to 50 states today, U.S. flag has gone through scores of changes as it continues ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave . Leepson: In the first line, Key uses “freemen,” and three lines later, he uses “us.” ...

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 ...