Long before pop culture’s fascination with celebrity-inspired patriotism, before Whitney Houston made the national ... was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis ...

Tears in my eyes!!' Whitney Houston's rendition at the 1991 Super Bowl has long been hailed as one of the best performances of the Star Spangled Banner. However, some NFL fans felt that Pentatonix ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression of racial hostility toward African Americans and should be either ...