The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...

WASHINGTON — The original, handwritten manuscript of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the flag that inspired the song’s lyrics will be displayed together at the Smithsonian in Washington ...

THE MANUSCRIPT WILL BE HERE FROM FLAG DAY JUNE 14 THROUGH JULY 6. Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" down nearly 200 years ago and for the first time ever, his original manuscript ...

June 14 is Flag Day ... The original song was about a sixth-century Greek poet named Anacreon who wrote about drinking and womanizing. Before “The Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the ...

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 original star-spangled banner—the one that Americans raised at Fort McHenry to celebrate their victory over the British in the War of 1812. It was the sight of this gigantic flag ...

Americans from Maine to California may still have fragments from the original "Star-Spangled Banner." Not long after the huge 30-foot by 42-foot flag inspired an 1814 poem by Francis Scott Key ...

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 ...

Baltimore flagmaker Mary Pickersgill delivered. Original Star Spangled Banner, on display at Museum of American History (Smithsonian) The flag raised on the morning of September 14th was a ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...