After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an 18th-century English drinking song, captured the patriotic picture of the American ...

A large American flag was raised. Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, ...

The basics. 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 ...

The Real Story Behind the Star-Spangled Banner, the Flag That Inspired the National Anthem ... Key’s poem, now called “The Star-Spangled Banner,” appeared in print across the country, ...

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming From inauguration ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

It was the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers finally arrived in Texas to enforce the Emancipation ...

Amanda Gorman delivered a new poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention with a clear message that “love that frees us all.” The 2017 National Youth Poet Laureate called on ...

DECATUR — Mary Stiles found a ragged little flag outside her patio door at Oxford House. And like the “Ragged Old Flag” in the Johnny Cash song, she was inspired by her patriotism to rescue ...