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When you listen to the Star-Spangled Banner, many Americans feel a sense of pride and enthusiasm. However, a different version of the classic may cause you to feel a bit more somber. Chase Holfelde… ...
While it's the song that is recited before major political and sporting events, "The Star Spangled Banner" didn't become the country's national anthem until 1931. President Herbert Hoover signed ...
But how much do you really know about our national anthem? Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics.
4. Francis Scott Key wrote alternate lyrics for "The Star-Spangled Banner." One version of the lyrics, handwritten by Francis Scott Key himself in 1840, changes the version we all know so well.
Their words appear on some of the 575 artful banners lining downtown's thoroughfares, and they exist among a magnitude of more words from poets and professors, entrepreneurs and anarchists ...
This week marks the 200th anniversary of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and Baltimore is pulling out all the stops: massive fireworks displays, historical reenactments and live performances all over ...
The US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, is one of the world’s most iconic anthems. But what are the words and history?
A banner displaying the United States and Israeli flags with the words "Brown for Israel" was flown above Brown University commencement ceremonies.
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.
A banner with the words "HA HA HA HA HA HA" floated over former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and resort Wednesday to "mock" protestors upset about Trump's legal trouble.