The song was linked to the Anacreontic Society, which was an amateur musician’s and singer’s club named after the Greek poet Anacreon. “The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star ... performance of the song at a baseball game was during the 1918 World Series. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... who wrote the words to the song during the War of 1812, was defaced ...

So why does it keep happening? Well, in part because the song is notoriously difficult to sing. Why is the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ so hard to sing? In short, the national anthem is so hard to ...

set to the tune of a British drinking song, immortalized as “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The flag itself, enshrined since 2008 in a special chamber at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

The original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song that would become our national anthem, is among the most treasured artifacts in the Smithsonian's ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor ... and based on the tune of an 18th century drinking song. Rather than address these true, patently false, and half-true claims ...

Secondly, look at the song itself. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about ... The third stanza of the original poem which refers to former slaves who were working for the British ...