It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

On the evening of August 24, 1814, British troops torched the Capitol ... aboard the British sloop some eight miles upriver from Fort McHenry. From the vessel, they anxiously watched the ...

1814, in the heat of the British bombardment, a smaller flag that was used during bad weather, called a storm flag, very likely was run up over Fort McHenry. This flag, 25 by 17 feet, was also ...

AND WITH SPRING COMES THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS. AND NO, I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ONES DOWN IN D.C. FORT MCHENRY, RIGHT HERE IN BALTIMORE HAS ITS VERY OWN CHERRY BLOSSOM GROVES, TOO, IN FACT.

Peak bloom for cherry blossoms at Fort McHenry will be from April 2-4, the National Park Service says. Sources: White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case China ...

EATONTOWN -- As a Boy Scout in Fort Monmouth Troop 49, Bailey Ferrugia helped lead a flag ceremony twice a year in Wampum Memorial Park. He noticed the markers commemorating Eatontown’s war dead ...

MCHENRY COUNRY, Ill. (WLS) -- A man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash Saturday afternoon in the far north suburbs. The crash happened around 3 p.m. in the 24700 block of Route 173 in ...

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine has more than 150 cherry blossom trees and is one of the most popular spots in the city to see them. Other cherry blossom locations in Baltimore ...

According to the McHenry County Sheriff's office, the Natural Gas Pipeline Company is working in Richmond and "releasing natural gas while working." The work will be taking place at the ...

For the next 45 days, the Defense Department will test taking control of a section of the Roosevelt Reservation in New Mexico, east of Fort Huachuca, which is an Army installation in Arizona ...