I remember sitting in that department library and the thought entered my head: “The Star-Spangled Banner” is an historic song, it’s hiding in plain sight. program at Stony Brook University and I needed a topic for a seminar paper. What first piqued your interest in the national anthem and doing that level of research about it? The process took several years, but that was the mother lode. I picked out the best material and distilled it into this book.
If you piled them up they’d probably come up to my thigh. At one point I realized that I shouldn’t just write things down and decided to make copies for later reference. and in Baltimore, Maryland which is the home of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and amassed a pile of papers. I hit all the major archives in Washington D.C. I spent a number of years, though there was an intensive three months thanks to a Smithsonian Institution fellowship.
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