A historic American flag that was originally flown at half-mast to mark the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has ...

The Star-Spangled Banner remained in Flag Hall until 1998, when it taken down to undergo extensive conservation. Removing 1.7 Million Stitches in under a Year. Watch on .

The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott ...

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Baltimore's Star-Spangled Banner Flag House unties with Nickelodeon for Worldwide Day of Play 01:33. BALTIMORE -- September 28 is Worldwide Day of Play, a day created by Nickelodeon dedicated to ...

It's one of the country's best-loved songs – but the US national anthem, recently performed by The Chicks at the Democratic National Convention, has an unexpectedly colourful past.

The Star-Spangled Banner flag or the Great Garrison Flag — the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814 and inspired Francis Scott Key; screen print, 1926. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) ...

Latin-R&B singer Nezza made a stand at Saturday’s Los Angeles Dodgers game, singing “The Star Spangled Banner” in Spanish, even though she said she had been warned not to, going into the ...

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 ...

Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.

Deep within "The Star-Spangled Banner" is another famous phrase, one that many believe eventually was adopted as our national motto. "And this be our motto - 'In God is our trust,'" reads line 30.