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 ...

Key was aboard a ship in the harbor and squinted through ... The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

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.

Before Andress' announcement, critics flocked to social media to compare Andress to equally memorable “Star-Spangled Banner” performances ... of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore’s ...

They will oversee the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, demolished in a cargo ship collision last year. One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way ...

Boiled down to its essence, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a song about survival and resilience, about bravery and hope. The first stanza of Francis Scott Key's 1814 poem, as sung by generations of ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor choice for our national anthem. Critics cite it as difficult to sing, difficult to understand, and most often, difficult to lov ...

A Cultural Biography of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” by Mark Clague Mark Clague ... their most terrifying weapons to bear, the “bomb ships” — those “bombs bursting in air” — and ...

The bridge that collapsed into a Maryland river after a ship strike Tuesday was iconic — erected almost five decades ago, named after the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and part of ...