It’s the crux of the whole song. They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... In Robert Burns’s battle poem “Scots Wha Hae,” written in ...

The poem is a form of art and should be appreciated as art, not dismissed because of the personal beliefs of the author. Secondly, look at the song itself. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a ...

Tim O'Brien Broad Stripes and Bright Stars by George Green Composing this poem, Green recalled seeing ... Smithsonian working to restore the Star-Spangled Banner in a room with a model of a ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long ... have immortalized this unspoken sentiment in his poem as he watched his country’s spangled banner fly over the bombarded Fort McHenry: “O, say, ...

Removed from exhibit in 1998 for a conservation project that cost about $7 million, the Star-Spangled Banner, as it had become ... would look like a finished whole—and not like the massive ...