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The Flags and the Nation A Flag Day Chronicle
A long historical meditation on the American flag from the birth of the Stars and Stripes to Old Glory and the Star-Spangled Banner. It covers Independence Hall 1777, Fort McHenry 1814, Captain Driver of Salem, and Flag Day 1914 with Key, Drake, Lane and public memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Continental Congress
John Hancock
Charles Thomson
United States
Union
Congress
Fort McHenry
Maryland
Great Britain
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore
Francis Scott Key
Key
Baltimore American
Ferdinand Durang
New York Harbor
Laura B. Priska
William Driver
Mass
Yorktown
Henry Mosler
Yale University Press
Anacreon
Heaven
Holliday Street
America
Salem
Charles Daggett
Driver
God the Father
God
Son
God the Holy Ghost
Captain Driver
Republic
Joseph Rodman Drake
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
President Wilson
Washington
Lane