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.

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 ...

Not a single Democrat objected to the barrage of fascist threats made by Trump in the course of his inaugural address.

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 ...

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.

Opera singer Christopher Macchio delivered a booming rendition of the national anthem at the Trump inauguration, raising a ...

only the third encore in the BSO’s history. But that’s not what the rest of the country will hear about. The next morning, Stravinsky’s “Star-Spangled Banner” is a national scandal ...

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 Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...

Explore America and discover people, places, art, history, and other items related to Maryland in the Smithsonian's growing digitized collections. The original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that ...