“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 ...

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

Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Transportation Authority plan to unveil the new concept for the design of the Francis Scott ...

The band will still have opportunities to play, once at Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key wrote the words of the Star-Spangled Banner. They will also play at the steps of the Capitol after the ...

The association of song with war is hardly new. Armies have enlisted musicians for centuries, to establish marching cadences, signal charges, or to commemorate a special event. Popular music, too ...

Francis Scott Key, to scribble out the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the back of a letter. How did the war end? It was essentially a stalemate. By late 1814, the U.S. government was ...

Here are a few details I learned reading the book: F. Scott Fitzgerald was named after Francis Scott Key, who wrote the text for “The Star-Spangled Banner” It turns out Fitzgerald was a distant cousin ...

Canadian NHL fans booed the Star ... the “Star Spangled Banner” as boos came pouring in from fans. Stephen Taylor, /X When the Canadian-born singer began the song with iconic words, “Oh ...

Mickey Guyton Releases Powerful Rendition of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ From Super Bowl LVI to Mark Three-Year Anniversary ...