Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine

Bibliography




THE FLAG

Carmer, Carl,  A Flag for the Fort, Julian Messner, Inc., New York, 1952.

Fradin, Dennis B., The Flag of the United States, Children's Press, Chicago, 1988.

Kroll, Steven, The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner, By the Dawn's Early Light, Scholastic, Inc., New York, 1994.

Mayer, Albert I., The Story of Old Glory, Children's Press, Chicago, 1970.

Parrish, Thomas, The American Flag, Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York, 1973.

Quaife, Milo M., et al., The History of the United States Flag from the Revolution to the Present, Including a Guide to Its Use and Display, Harper and Row, Publishers, New York, 1961.

Smith, Whitney, The Flag Book of the United States, William Morrow and Co., Inc., New York, 1970.

Spier, Peter, The Star-Spangled Banner, Doubleday, New York, 1973.

Williams, Earl P., Jr., What You Should Know About the American Flag, Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1987.


FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

Georgiady, Nicholas Peter, Our National Anthem, Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, 1963.

Holland, Rupert Sargent, Freedom's Flag: the Story of Francis Scott Key, Macrae-Smith Company, Philadelphia, 1943.

Kroll, Steven, By the Dawn's Early Light: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner, Scholastic, New York, 1993.

Lowitz, Sadyebeth, Francis Scott Key, Lerner Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 1967.

Mandrell, Louise, Sunrise Over the Harbor, Summit Group, Fort Worth, 1993.

Meyer, Sam, Paradoxes of Fame: The Francis Scott Key Story, Eastwind Publishing, Annapolis, Maryland, 1995.

Patterson, Lillie, Francis Scott Key, Poet and Patriot, Garrard Publishing Company, Champaign, Illinois, 1963.

Stevenson, Augusta, Francis Scott Key, Maryland Boy, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1960.

Weybright, Victor, Spangled Banner: The Story of Francis Scott Key, Farrar, Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1935.

Whitcraft, Melissa, Francis Scott Key, Franklin Watts, New York, 1994.


THE WAR OF 1812

Altoff, Gerard T., Amongst My Best Men: African-Americans and the War of 1812, The Perry Group, Put-in Bay, Ohio, 1996.

Cole, Henry L., The War of 1812, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965.

Lord, Walter, The Dawn's Early Light, W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1972.

Morris, Richard B., The War of 1812, Illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher, Lerner Publications Co., Minneapolis, 1985.

Pitch, Anthony S., The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1998.

Sheads, Scott, Fort McHenry: A History, Nautical and Aviation Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1995.

Sheads, Scott, The Rockets' Red Glare: The Maritime Defense of Baltimore in 1814, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Maryland, 1986.

Sheads, Scott Sumpter, Guardian of the Star-Spangled Banner: Lt. Colonel George Armistead and The Fort McHenry Flag, Toomey Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999.

Turner, Wesley, The War of 1812: The War That Both Sides Won, Dundurn Press, Toronto and Oxford, 1990.


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