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

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

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 ...

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

Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment from a ship in Baltimore harbor and expressed his gratitude and relief at the victory in a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner." Following the Battle ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long ... sentiment in his poem as he watched his country’s spangled banner fly over the bombarded Fort McHenry: “O, say, can you see… does that banner ...

Sheads, historian at Baltimore's Fort ... flag business," says Jean Ehmann, a guide who shows visitors around the Pickersgill house, now a National Historic Landmark known as the Star-Spangled ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted ... The next morning, he looked out and saw the flag rising above Fort McHenry, which moved him to write the poem. Clague: He can’t ...