The Star-Spangled Banner ... lyrics to the well-known anthem below. The music was written by British composer and early musicologist John Stafford Smith around 1773, but remained lyric-less until 1814 ...

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics ... Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an ... in which a statue of Francis Scott Key, the Maryland lawyer who wrote the ...

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.