One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

Texas High School Tiger band performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. The tune was ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem, later to become America’s national anthem.

TEXARKANA, Tx. - The Tiger Band headed off Saturday evening to represent Texas High School in Washington, D.C. at ...

A reader sends me a list of things he memorized, way back: speeches in Shakespeare; “The Star-Spangled Banner,” by Francis Scott Key (all four stanzas); “a raft of Irish verses,” as he says.

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There’s no avoiding it. Donald Trump’s looming presence defines 2024. Image by DonkeyHotey via Flickr, Creative Commons licensed. We’re almost through 2024. Why should you be forced to sit ...

The program will feature meet-- and-- greets with historical figures Francis Scott Key, Mary Pickersgill, and Dolley Madison to learn about the writing of the national anthem, the creation of the Star ...

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest ever guitarist in rock and roll, and he certainly knew it because there were greatest hits thrown into his sets time and again.

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So the 1849 law was passed 71 years before the people most affected by it could vote. 1814: The year Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, The U.S. National Anthem. 1868: Three years after ...