For the first time, Nickelodeon and the Association of Children's Museums are teaming up with Baltimore's Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "We are trying to just get kids out here and families out ...

then laid the whole flag out on the expansive floor of a brewery near Mrs. Pickersgill’s Pratt Street house, now the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Museum." A smaller flag that flew over the ...

"Baltimore was a very good place to have a flag business," says Jean Ehmann, a guide who shows visitors around the Pickersgill house, now a National Historic Landmark known as the Star-Spangled ...

With the War of 1812 raging, the British had already marched on Washington and set fire to the White House when they ... The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed ...

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 ...

The 15-star version of the flag flying over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem, 'The Star- Spangled ... The White House, The Washington ...

The British then marched unopposed into Washington and burned many government buildings, including the White House and ... the song and the flag became known as the “Star Spangled Banner”.

Why is the ‘Star-Spangled Banner ... 14, 1814, Key saw an American flag still standing. Earlier in 1814, Americans had watched as the British torched the White House and other key buildings ...

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 ...