"Baltimore was a very good place to have a flag business," says Jean Ehmann, a guide who shows visitors around the Pickersgill house, now a National Historic Landmark known as the Star-Spangled Banner ...

The Star-Spangled Banner Preservation, 1914, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History In 1878, New York stockbroker Eben Appleton inherited the Star-Spangled Banner, the very flag that ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Many of us put our hands on our hearts and try to croak ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is accessioned into the permanent collection of the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. The flag was first loaned to the museum July 9, 1907 by Eben ...

The museums of the Smithsonian Institute are among America’s great treasures. Within the span of a few city blocks in the nation’s capital, you can see the tattered flag that inspired Francis Scott ...

On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed the bill making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official national anthem of the United States. The anthem’s lyrics were written by Francis Scott Key, ...

Few people know the real story of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the flag that inspired the lyrics of the national anthem. The real story of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' To mark the 250th anniversary of ...