Rebecca Onion of Slate’s The Vault blog provides us with an early draft of Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner and offers some historical context. Â I’ll bet most of you did not know about all of these extra verses. Â Here is...
Indian Queen Hotel, Baltimore He jotted some thoughts down in Baltimore Harbor, but finished the song that would become the National Anthem at Baltimore’s Indian Queen Hotel. Â Liz Williams explains at the blog of the National Museum of American History:...
The good folks at the National Museum of American History have published a post telling the story of Grace Wisher, the 13-year-old African American servant who helped Mary Pickersgill design the Star Spangled Banner which flew over Fort McHenry and...
