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.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney, slaveholder and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem, later to become America’s national anthem.

Francis Scott Key was an unlikely candidate to author America’s national anthem. As Americans mark the 200th anniversary of the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” much about Key and the ...

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Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”. Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, therefore we should not honor ...

The War Of 1812 was in its final months when lawyer and amateur poet Francis ... 1814, Key was heartened to see that the American flag (also referred to as the “Star-Spangled Banner”) was ...

Designs of the 2012 Star-Spangled Banner commemorative coins were introduced to the public at a Dec. 14 ceremony in Baltimore. A silver dollar and a $5 gold piece will mark the writing of the National ...

A special Star-Spangled Banner Bicentennial Silver Dollar Set containing one proof dollar and a reproduction of the poem by Francis Scott Key that became the words to our National Anthem in 1931 went ...

Francis Scott Key was an unlikely candidate to author America’s national anthem. As Americans mark the 200th anniversary of the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” much about Key and the ...