The New York Post confirms everyone's worst nightmare: Beyoncé lip-synched her way through "The Star-Spangled Banner" during yesterday's inauguration ceremony for President Obama. According to a ...

After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an ...

The Star-Spangled Banner, as it was known by then, became the national anthem in 1931, when a congressional bill was signed by President Herbert Hoover.

April 27, 2006 — -- "The Star Spangled Banner" has provided the soundtrack to our national pastime since 1918, when the spirited tune debuted at a baseball game. Now there is a new version ...

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter of patriotic musical activity during the decades following our victorious conclusion ...

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter of patriotic musical activity during the decades following our victorious conclusion ...