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

Instead, it turned out to be the prelude to one of the most celebrated expressions of patriotic fervor in the young country’s history: Francis Scott Key’s composition of “The Star-Spangled ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor choice for our national anthem. Critics cite ... harbored during the War of 1812. Francis Scott Key may have immortalized this ...

A year after the catastrophic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge ... Named after the man who penned the national anthem during the War of 1812, the Key Bridge was a beloved ...