now a National Historic Landmark known as the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "Ships were coming and going from around the world. All of them needed flags—company flags, signal flags ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem ... of the Battle of Baltimore from aboard a British war ship, where he was being held as a strategic prisoner.

Long before pop culture’s fascination with celebrity-inspired patriotism, before Whitney Houston made the national anthem a Billboard-ranking vocal marvel ... Star-Spangled Banner that inspired ...

Terry Winter's notebook-collage is based on a 1914 photograph of two women at the Smithsonian working to restore the Star-Spangled Banner in a ... Ahab's sinking ship and "reflects a physical ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... Francis Scott Key was in Baltimore Harbor aboard a ship, guarded by the British who would not let him go, forced to watch ...