Rather than address claims against the song, it would be my pleasure to look at what makes our national anthem so great.

Jay Newton-Small wonders why there isn’t more interest in commemorating the War of 1812: But even though the U.S. won it [bold mine-DL], the War of 1812 seems to be the buck-toothed stepsister ...

Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in ...

The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the Alien Enemies Act in July 1798 as the United States came to the brink of ...

American Gen. Wade Hampton marched his 2,000 soldiers along the banks of the Châteauguay River, part of a two-pronged American push towards Montreal. There, he was met by an all-Canadian force under ...

As a commander, he fought the British in the War of 1812, and Native Americans in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the second Seminole War in Florida in 1835. His performance in the Seminole War ...

The War of 1812 was fought in the wake of The UK’s impressment of American sailors in the Royal Navy, as well as its restricting of American trade in Europe. This wasn’t a fight concerning ...