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 is ... The music was written by British composer and early musicologist John Stafford Smith around 1773, but remained lyric-less until 1814, when American lawyer and amateur ...

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song often called the Black national anthem, was sung before the Super Bowl for the fifth year ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott ...

Academy and Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste will sing the national anthem at the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans. Batiste, 38, is a native of Metairie, LA. His family is considered a New ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner ... In Robert Burns’s battle poem “Scots Wha Hae,” written in 1793 though set ...

Key was watching about eight miles away on a ship, and wrote his poem as he witnessed the bombardment. The poem became the now legendary "Star-Spangled Banner" and eventually began its reign as ...