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 ...

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

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 ...

New York (CNN)-- A near two-century-old copy of "The Star Spangled Banner" sold for $506,500 Friday ... "By the dawn's early light," Key saw that the fort's flag -- torn and singed from near ...

Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See blog for pointers on U.S. Flag Code, or learn more about the Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian's ...

As NFL players and owners push back against President Trump’s remarks about the national anthem, here’s a quick refresher on how “The Star Spangled Banner ... set on the flag fluttering ...

An enormous flag ... Star-Spangled Banner in a room with a model of a giant squid. Terry Winters "This was just one person, making one thing," says artist and filmmaker Matt Mahurin of the ...

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 ...

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?