IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This sheet music is for the song ...

Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar during his set at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Playing with Jimi Hendrix is Billy Cox. Photo by Henry Diltz/Corbis via Getty By the time Jimi Hendrix took the ...

From inauguration ceremonies to baseball games to high school graduations and more, those words are used to celebrate the American flag. The national anthem was penned by Francis Scott Key after the ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor choice for our national anthem. Critics cite it as difficult to sing, difficult to understand, and most often, difficult to love. It has been ...

Have you ever walked by an American flag and wondered, “What does the flag mean to me?” Maybe you think of the veterans who ...

From Little League games to professional sporting events and from school assemblies to citizenship ceremonies, the lines of “The Star-Spangled Banner” ring out. It is one of the most common ...

Inspired by the sight of the American flag after battle, Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Its vivid imagery captured the spirit of survival, symbolizing the nation's push for ...

The Star-Spangled Banner, one of the best-known national anthems in the world, has roots far more rowdy than patriotic, writes Barrymore Laurence Scherer for The Wall Street Journal. The melody was ...