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 ...

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

"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 ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States ... Key was inspired to write it after he saw the American flag flying above Fort McHenry after US forces fought off an attack by ...

An American flag, flying high, a sight Key and his fellow patriots proudly hailed. Long beloved by Americans, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became our National Anthem on March 3 ...

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?