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 ...

"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 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 ...

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 ...

June 13 (UPI) --Today is Flag Day, and while Americans typically don't get the day off, it's still a holiday worth celebrating. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Flag Day marks the ...

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?