Star-spangled banner : the unlikely story of America's national anthem /
"In September, 2014, Baltimore and the United States will mark the bicentennial of the event that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." But Francis Scott Key's poem, set to a British drinking song, has not always been our anthem, nor even especially popular. Aiming at a broad read...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Anthem before a nation, 1814-1860
- American dischord, 1860-1865
- Striving to reunify, 1865-1900
- Duties and customs, 1880-1910
- Stars and stripes forever, 1890-1920
- Marching under the banner, 1898-1931
- Trials and triumphs, 1931-1954
- Star-spangled consensus, 1954-1963
- Postmodern patriotism, 1964-2014.