The opposite applies at Fort McHenry, on the shore of Baltimore ... teenager and has been an employee since 1994. “The Civil War is the American Iliad. The War of 1812 is a 19th-century version ...

A curtain would fall to reveal it, filling an entire wall of the National Museum of American History's great ... Earlier, in the second year of the war, Fort McHenry's new commander, Maj.

It’s a song every American has heard countless ... called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812. The stanzas recount the Battle ...