It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

Its third verse uses the word ‘slave,’ but it may not have referred to chattel slavery in the South. By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star ...

People started to propose it as the official national anthem. But it had competition ... On some occasions, the fourth verse gets tacked on. The second and third stanzas? Well, some people ...

But how much do you really know about our national anthem? Let’s take a line-by ... And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, The third verse is probably the most historically problematic ...