This piece of sheet music bearing the words and music of "The Star Spangled Banner" will be auctioned on Dec. 3. In the 1800s, it was owned by Mary Barnitz of York County, Pa.

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter ... Tavern in the Strand” according to an 18th-century copy of the sheet music, would have ...

Fascinating facts about Francis Scott Key, the writing of what would become America's national anthem, and the War of 1812 ...

Oh Say Can You See …half a million dollars? A rare first edition of the sheet music for “The Star-Spangled Banner” sold for $506,500 at Christie’s Auction House in New York Friday ...

In 1931, Congress passed a bill to make “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official national anthem of the United States. But the decision was far from simple. Among the points of contention was ...

Lester S. Levy bagged his first-edition copy of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1940 for $170, appreciably less than an anonymous buyer plunked down — $506,5000 — 70 years later on Dec. 3 at ...

Jimi Hendrix performed ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in protest of the Vietnam War. Before he was a professional musician, Jimi Hendrix enlisted in the army in 1961 and was a paratrooper in the ...

Hendrix played his ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ toward the end of a 2-hour set. AUGUST 1969: Overall shot of the huge crowd, looking towards the large yellow tents, during the Woodstock Music & Art ...

Among the world’s best-known national anthems, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814) emerged out of a welter of patriotic musical activity during the decades following our victorious conclusion ...