Long before pop culture’s fascination with celebrity-inspired patriotism, before Whitney Houston made ... This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner ...

They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ... the power that hath made and preserv’d us ...

No one knows for sure who made the first American flag ... ("The Star-Spangled Banner" plays) The Star-Spangled banner isn't as old as the flag. It was written during another war, the War of ...

Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See blog for pointers on U.S. Flag Code, or learn more about the Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian's ...

An American flag, flying high, a sight Key and his fellow patriots proudly hailed. Long beloved by Americans, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became our National Anthem on March 3 ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to ...

“If it wasn’t for that battle, we would not be the United States we are today,” said Annelise Montone, executive director at Baltimore’s Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, where the original ...

“The Star Spangled ... herald a flag that represents a country with so many flaws and so far from perfection? I think we should. Our anthem proves metaphoric once again: The banner about which ...

Wrestling fans in Canada booed the Star Spangled Banner at a WWE wrestling match on Saturday night — with commentator Pat McAfee calling Canada “terrible,” in a rant after the national diss.