Instead, it turned out to be the prelude to one of the most celebrated expressions of patriotic fervor in the young country’s history: Francis Scott Key’s composition of “The Star-Spangled ...

The mountaintop home of an Italian hermit who lived in the U.S. in the 1860s still attracts a handful of pilgrims Photographs by Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft; Text by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz Left ...