Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem

Jefferson Morley relates the strange story of how ‘a poem of intense hatred’ set to a British tune became America’s national song.

Jefferson Morley

Published Jul. 4 2013 4:45AM EDT 

Jefferson Morley

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