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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is more to the story of this flag than meets the eye Victoria Altman The Star Spangled Banner, the flag that ... 2014. Read the original version here.

Holmes wrote this extra verse, long after Francis Scott Key wrote the original. The U.S. was in the ... with the traitor that dares to defile The flag of her stars and the page of her story!

The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

Decades of careful restoration and study have revealed a lot about the flag that flew over Fort ... But a gaping hole at the center of the original Star-Spangled Banner presents a question that ...

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 ...

Those that stayed were witness to one of the most iconic performances at the Music and Art Festival: his “Star-Spangled Banner ... not even by the original. In performing the anthem ...