The Motor City Madman kicked off the 2025 Texas legislative session by playing a few licks on an Austin street corner a block from the Capitol.

When the series returned to Boston, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee ordered “The Star Spangled Banner” played to open each game, according to author Marc Ferris’ cultural history of the anthem.

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort ...

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

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially adopted as the ... Notoriously difficult to perform, the song has a history of both astounding successes and cringe-worthy failures (we are looking ...

Singer Rachel Platten chose to revel in the positive reviews after her national anthem performance at the Rams-Vikings ...

Secondly, look at the song itself. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle that was significant in the American History, the War of 1812. The words describe a battle. With a ...

The National Museum of American History (NMAH) welcomes millions of visitors from around the world every year. Its collection ...

Over the years “The Star-Spangled Banner” has been performed by a wide ... look at every national anthem performance in Super Bowl history. According to a report from the Brooklyn Daily ...

“That National anthem for the Chargers vs Texans game was pretty bad,” a second fan added. That National anthem for the ...

It is fitting that the origin of the anthem is connected to the history of Maryland, a former slave state on the border of the North and the South. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by ...

It is fitting that the origin of the anthem is connected to the history of Maryland, a former slave state on the border of the North and the South. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis ...