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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A major bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after getting hit by a ship is named for Francis ... a British song and became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over the 19th century, it became ...

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 ...

Houston’s version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was so beloved that it was released as a charity single to raise money for soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf War and their families.

Sunday is "National Anthem Day" which marks the day that the "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the country's national anthem Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that would eventually become The ...

Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner." In 1940, the chapel at Buckingham Palace was destroyed in the German Blitz on London. The palace came under attack nine times ...