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

Sheads, historian at Baltimore's Fort McHenry National Monument and ... conservation project that cost about $7 million, the Star-Spangled Banner, as it had become known, returns to center stage ...

Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment from a ship in Baltimore harbor and expressed his gratitude and relief at the victory in a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner." Following the Battle ...

His subject -- Fort McHenry the morning after the 1814 ... of two women at the Smithsonian working to restore the Star-Spangled Banner in a room with a model of a giant squid.

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a ... his country’s spangled banner fly over the bombarded Fort McHenry: “O, say, can you see… does that banner yet wave?” ...

There are six National Parks within an hour and a half radius of the heart of Washington, D.C., that can be visited on ...

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.