The U.S. Flag Code says the American flag must always be displayed with the star field in the proper direction. So why is it ...

It’s a song every American has heard ... t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the ... negotiating the release of a group of American prisoners. Key, who was prohibited from ...

"Flags have a hard life," says Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss, chief conservator of the Star-Spangled Banner Project at the National Museum of American History. "The amount of wind damage that happens ...

Still, I suspect a vestige of doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag ... American Dream is the refusal to fight for it. This is the greatness of “The Star Spangled ...

Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See blog for pointers on U.S. Flag Code, or learn more about the Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian's ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - With Flag Day just around the corner, KTBS 3 wanted to take a look at proper etiquette of the American Flag ...

Smithsonian Institution Archives The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the lyrics ... Hugh Talman / NMAH, SI The National Museum of American History’s first director, Frank A.

The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle ... He watched “rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort ...