-- The Newton Coal Company has completed a careful and systematic canvass of the names and the number of men who were entombed Sunday by the cave-in at the Twin Shaft coal mine.

The basics Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to ...