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

The song became extremely popular, especially after the somewhat ho-hum original title was changed to The Star Spangled Banner ... misinterpretation of the lyrics. There’s a lot of argument ...

Susan Biddle / The Washington Post / Getty Images The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that ... for the first time with Key’s original manuscript of his lyrics, on loan from the Maryland ...

Betsy Wolfe, a Broadway actress and singer, was tapped to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the game ... the California native was reading the lyrics off of her phone. The "Juliet" star ...

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 ...