June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress issued a resolution making the Stars and Stripes the nation's flag. Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See ...

In collaboration with USA TODAY, “America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice” is a tribute to veterans—covering ...

Helms donated the flag to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2014. Her 2019 autobiography, “More Than Just a Flag,” chronicles her time as a submariner in the Navy and ...

Watch four short videos to learn about the story of the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the National Anthem. During the presentation, Mary Pickersgill (a historical figure with a ...

We expect to see the American flag adorning homes and waving over schools, post offices, and government buildings. But there ...

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 (Craft and Structure): Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how ...

With the hero essentially wearing the flag on his costume and shield ... The fact that Captain America has a presence in a real life Smithsonian museum is an amusing bit of life imitating art ...

Ellen Wexler is Smithsonian magazine’s assistant digital ... turned out to be nearly 5,000 years old The so-called good-luck flag, which hung on an American veteran's wall for many years ...

The future USS John Basilone may not have officially joined the Navy’s surface fleet just yet, but the warship is apparently ...

Helms designed the first transgender pride flag in 1999, according to the Smithsonian Institute. Growing up in Arizona and now a Georgia resident, Helms debuted the flag at a Pride parade in ...

Southern Baptist leaders and many other evangelical leaders expressed jubilation at Donald Trump’s victory in the ...