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 ...

Safe to say I’m never allowed in that stadium again,” Latin-R&B musician Nezza said after her performance at a Los Angeles ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor ... doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag on that fateful September evening. If true, Key was not unlike ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of ...

"The rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air/Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there," Key wrote over the next two days. "O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave/O'er ...

Nui Ba Den, South Vietnam, Oct. 16, 1969: The U.S. flag flies from the top of the radar tower atop Black Virgin Mountain (Nui ...

and simply existed as part of a banner to alert users to websites' official government affiliation. We traced the origins of the small nine-star American flag image to the U.S. Web Design System ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.