This Fourth of July, we are beginning to learn once again why our National Anthem proclaims America as "the land of the free and home of the brave." I first really focused on that phrase ...

America has always been the home of the brave. It hasn't always been the land of the free. It wasn't the land of the free in 1814 when a slave-holding attorney named Francis Scott Key wrote a poem ...

we’re not truly the land of the free. But make no mistake, we are still the home of the brave and that is why we will have change. We will have justice.

Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Mich.) this week proposed a resolution marking the 200th year of the Francis Scott Key poem that later became the national anthem of the United States. “The Star Spangled ...

"I'm still in the process of learning what Berlin means to me as an artist. But it's important for me to get out there - out of America. I want to be part of a broader conversation. I think it's ...

We hear these stirring words all of the time: “The land of the free and the home of the brave.” This heartfelt expression is oft-quoted in sermons and political speeches and as rallying ...

When Francis Scott Key wrote the words “the land of the free and the home of the brave” in 1814, he did so in a poem called “The Defense of Fort McHenry.” The battle of Fort McHenry in ...