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 ...

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?

Jon Batiste performed 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at the 2025 Super Bowl, as cameras captured President Donald Trump saluting from his box at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans and Kansas City Chiefs ...

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 ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States ... Key was inspired to write it after he saw the American flag flying above Fort McHenry after US forces fought off an attack by ...