The Star-Spangled Banner remained in Flag Hall until 1998 ... never to make the flag look as it did when it first flew over Fort McHenry. “We didn’t want to change any of the history written ...

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

George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry, had requested that a ... Mrs. Pickersgill’s Pratt Street house, now the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Museum." A smaller flag that flew over ...

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 ...

The rousing Star ... flag, not the Union Jack, was raised over the fort. According to the Smithsonian Institution, which boasts among its many historical treasures that original star-spangled ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national ... Francis Scott Key set his poem ‘Defence of Fort M’Henry’ to the music. Key was inspired to write it after he saw the American flag flying above Fort ...

“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 ...

Why is the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ so hard ... British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. On Sept. 14, 1814, Key saw an American flag still standing.

“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 ...

In the murky waters of Baltimore's harbor, between the Chesapeake Bay and a decommissioned fort ... The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled ...

“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 ...