The following month, British forces attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. After twenty-five hours of bombarding the fort ...

Francis Scott Key awoke aboard a British warship after watching the terrifying 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry — and, by ...

The next morning, he looked out and saw the flag rising above Fort McHenry, which moved him to write the poem. Clague: He can’t see it without light, and “dawn” and “light” become ...

Read more opinion at CNN. The American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” is ...

An often-quoted line of the song is “the land of the free.” American freedoms are defined and enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. These freedoms are to be valued ...

During the War of 1812, British forces sailed to Baltimore, Maryland, intent on attacking the city. But Baltimore was defended by Fort McHenry — a star-shaped fort perfectly situated on the Baltimore ...

Watch four short videos to learn about the story of the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the National Anthem. During the presentation, Mary Pickersgill (a historical figure with a ...

Nashville & New York: Knox Press / Permuted Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 336. Illus., appends., notes, biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN:1637587333 The Fort McHenry Flag Tom ...

He watched “rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to those defending it. With the dawn ...

Your vote in this election will become part of a thread woven throughout America’s providential history stretching back to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Curiously, the official papers of that ...