“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... going from a question in the first stanza to ending with an exclamation point. It’s a wave of patriotism that sweeps the country ...

The poem had four stanzas, although today many Americans only know the first. A few days after ... during the 1918 World Series. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially adopted as the ...

Oh, say, can you hear that? Canadian NHL fans booed the Star Spangled Banner at an Ottawa Senators game Saturday, hours after President Donald Trump’s tariff on the country became official.

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” Born into slavery in Georgia in ...

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