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 ...

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 original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song that would become our national anthem, is among the most treasured artifacts in the Smithsonian's ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney, slaveholder and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry ...

Oh, say, can you hear that? Canadian NHL fans booed the Star Spangled Banner at an Ottawa Senators game Saturday, hours after President Donald Trump’s tariff on the country became official.