Here’s how our national anthem was inspired by the flag flying at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Through the perilous fight? The Star-Spangled Banner that inspired Francis Scott Key to ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

THE MANUSCRIPT WILL BE HERE FROM FLAG DAY JUNE 14 THROUGH JULY 6. Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" down nearly 200 years ago and for the first time ever, his original manuscript ...

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor Mark Clague talked about the history of The Star-Spangled Banner and how ... Handout: Graphic Organizer (Google Doc) In Google ...

For the first time, Nickelodeon and the Association of Children's Museums are teaming up with Baltimore's Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "We are trying to just get kids out here and families out ...

They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

"The rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air/Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there," Key wrote over the next two days. "O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave/O'er ...

say does that star-spangled banner yet wave/O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?” In the complete version, Key details his relief at finally seeing the flag, and rejoices in ...

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and ...

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...