On September 14, 1814, the gray half-light of dawn, after a night of fire and thunder, the smoke parted over Fort McHenry to reveal what the British had failed to erase. The flag—thirty by forty-two feet, stitched in Baltimore only weeks earlier—still flew defiantly…
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On March 3, 1931, the United States officially made the Star Spangled Banner the national anthem of the United States through an act of Congress. The declaration marked the culmination of a long and passionate journey to establish a musical embodiment of American identity…
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