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

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem, later to become America’s national anthem.

The New Orleans native should bring rich musicality and innovation to the anthem. The over-under is set at 120.5 seconds.

Francis Scott Key was a slave owner ... Secondly, look at the song itself. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle that was significant in the American History, the War of ...

Then he started to play “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Many guitar heroes have ... Nugent’s interpretation—he’d dip into the minor key for embellishments—but when he got to the rockets ...

However, their performance of the Star-Spangled Banner was almost universally slammed ... David Knowles wrote: 'Still ...

I’ve come to think of it as a minor-key American tragedy ... isn’t above a little pandering to the locals. His “Star-Spangled Banner” is a throwback to Puritan times, he claims, an ...

Canadian NHL fans booed the Star Spangled Banner at an Ottawa Senators game Saturday, hours after President Donald Trump’s ...

When Maryland's replacement for Baltimore's Key Bridge is completed as expected in 2028, a state lawmaker wants the name to remain (mostly) the same.