Wu Man, a virtuosa pipa player, concluded her performance at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival with a brief yet powerful rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" on the traditional Chinese lute.

The Iron Maiden frontman sang the American National Anthem ahead of the Steelers vs Seattle Seahawks encounter ...

On this day, Francis Scott Key, a young lawyer, was detained in Baltimore harbor under guard by the British navy. The British were occupying the harbor, planning to attack Baltimore during the War of ...

Sometimes you take the bad with the good and sometimes you get some good with the bad. That was certainly the case with the U.S. and Brazilian national anthem performances ahead of today's NFL game ...

Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday left yet another singer embarrassed after flubbing the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner." The 42-year-old country crooner Aaron Lewis, lead singer of Staind, ...

Deutsch, James I. 2015. [Book review] "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem." American Studies, 54, (2), 42–43. https://doi.org ...