# @mdhistory on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGyBz8lpDt-
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-04T15:00:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) (@mdhistory) — https://gondola.cc/mdhistory

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On March 4, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a bill to officially adopt "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner" come from Francis Scott Key's poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry," the earliest extant manuscript of which is housed in the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. 

The poem was handwritten by Key, a Maryland lawyer and amateur poet, on September 14, 1814, at the Indian Queen Tavern in Baltimore after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. It was published in the Baltimore Patriot newspaper on September 20, 1814, and was later put to the tune of a popular song at the time titled "To Anacreon in Heaven." 

You can learn more about Maryland's role in the War of 1812 by visiting the exhibition “The Unfinished Revolution: Maryland in the Wars for Independence” at MCHC. 

(1) “The star-spangled banner,” manuscript by Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), 1814. MCHC Library, Manuscript Vertical File, 54315 
(2) Star spangled banner, transcribed for the piano by Charles Voss (1815–1882), 1861. MCHC Library, Star Spangled Banner Sheet Music Collection, SSB#373 
(3) Cover of “The Star Spangled Banner, Famous American Songs,” published by Hassmer Brothers, Chicago, ca. 1971. MCHC Library, Star-Spangled Banner Sheet Music Collection

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