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 ...

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.

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 ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... the British sent a downpour of shells and rockets on Fort McHenry for 25 hours in September 1814. Francis Scott Key was in ...

“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?” ...

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.