Francis Scott Key watched as the Battle of Baltimore raged on. The barrage of shells convinced him it would be a British victory as the battle stretched on from Sept. 13, 1814, to the next day, per ...

How did the War of 1812 result in America’s national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States national anthem is, within the singing community, considered one of the hardest songs to perform. Some ...

An engaging history of the United States flag known as the Star Spangled Banner, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the 1814 poem that in 1931 became the American National Anthem. The flag was ...

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter of patriotic musical activity during the decades following our victorious conclusion of the ...

(RNS) — The temptation is to follow “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our national anthem, with an immediate declaration of “Play ball!” But in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States, let’s resist ...

BALTIMORE -- It has been 209 years to the day since Francis Scott Key wrote the "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Baltimore. It was originally penned as a poem by Francis Scott Key the morning after a ...

Set to music by 1931, Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” became the anthem of the United States and has been played countless times at sporting events, and other patriotic celebrations for nearly a ...

Every Saturday, we’re going deep on one song we’ve never reviewed before. This week, in honor of Independence Day, we look back at our national anthem—its troubled history, its best performances, and ...