Rather than address claims against the song, it would be my pleasure to look at what makes our national anthem so great.

A senate committee approved a bill seeking to require public schools to broadcast the national anthem at least once a week ...

Our national memory is shorter than the first verse of the Star-Spangled banner, and that’s bad news if you’re trying to not repeat history.

NORWALK, Iowa — Sunday was a day Michael Howland, 49, will never forget. The Norwalk native can officially say he has run a ...

The words to the US National Anthem were written by Francis Scott Key, as he watched the British Royal Navy bombarding Fort McHenry ...

Katharine Lee Bates and the Story of America the Beautiful," chronicles Bates's life as an author, poet and professor; her ...

Platinum-selling singer Ingrid Andress moves on from botched performance, learning to give herself grace for mistakes and ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox ... He immediately began penning the first verse to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Key set his lyrics to the then popular tune of the “Anacreontic ...

Eight months later, the 33-year-old artist is reclaiming her career but has vowed never to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" again ... forced to stop after one verse, explaining that her high ...