{"id":103393,"date":"2026-07-04T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103393"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:14:35","slug":"the-dark-truth-behind-americas-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/the-dark-truth-behind-americas-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Truth Behind America\u2019s National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9jcZOY4iqc?si=M5jyg-Ie7YrXsWF5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Rest Is History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Jun 2026 <\/p>\n<p>How did the War of 1812 result in America&#8217;s national anthem, <em>The Star Spangled Banner<\/em>? Who came up with it? And, why does this origin story make the anthem so controversial? <\/p>\n<p>Join Dominic and Tom as they launch into the first episode of their Football World Cup special, with the story behind America&#8217;s national anthem, and its secret story. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 &#8211; Lloyd&#8217;s<br \/>\n01:21 &#8211; The Star-Spangled Banner<br \/>\n02:43 &#8211; A World Cup Series on National Anthems<br \/>\n04:08 &#8211; America&#8217;s Most Controversial Anthem<br \/>\n05:00 &#8211; The Forgotten War of 1812<br \/>\n09:10 &#8211; Britain Strikes Back<br \/>\n11:39 &#8211; Francis Scott Key Boards the British Fleet<br \/>\n15:27 &#8211; The Bombardment of Fort McHenry<br \/>\n18:14 &#8211; The Giant Flag That Inspired the Anthem<br \/>\n20:41 &#8211; Francis Scott Key Writes the Poem<br \/>\n23:28 &#8211; Why the Anthem Used an Old English Tune<br \/>\n26:13 &#8211; The Anacreontic Song<br \/>\n29:07 &#8211; How the Song Became a Hit<br \/>\n30:37 &#8211; The Times<br \/>\n31:48 &#8211; Is <em>The Star-Spangled Banner<\/em> About Slavery?<br \/>\n36:08 &#8211; Escaped Slaves and the British Army<br \/>\n40:55 &#8211; The People Who Found Freedom Under the Union Jack<br \/>\n42:29 &#8211; Francis Scott Key&#8217;s Complicated Legacy<br \/>\n47:06 &#8211; The Song Spreads Across America<br \/>\n51:39 &#8211; Why America Took So Long to Get a National Anthem<br \/>\n56:42 &#8211; How It Finally Became the Anthem<br \/>\n57:06 &#8211; Controversial Performances<br \/>\n1:00:17 &#8211; Colin Kaepernick and Taking the Knee<br \/>\n1:02:39 &#8211; Can You Separate the Anthem from the Author?<br \/>\n1:03:03 &#8211; The Abolitionist Version of the Anthem<br \/>\n1:04:13 &#8211; Coming Next: <em>God Save the King<\/em><br \/>\n1:06:33 &#8211; The Rest Is History Club<\/p>\n<p>Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton<br \/>\nSocial Producer: Harry Balden<br \/>\nProducers: Tabby Syrett &#038; Aaliyah Akude<br \/>\nSenior Producer: Callum Hill<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Dom Johnson<br \/>\nChief Digital Officer: Sam Oakley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 8 Jun 2026 How did the War of 1812 result in America&#8217;s national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner? Who came up with it? And, why does this origin story make the anthem so controversial? Join Dominic and Tom as they launch into the first episode of their Football World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6,7,5,13],"tags":[910,1391,1095,200,30,605,1604,566,985],"class_list":["post-103393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-baltimore","tag-biography","tag-fortification","tag-music","tag-navy","tag-slavery","tag-therestishistory","tag-warof1812","tag-washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qTD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103394,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393\/revisions\/103394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}