The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

June 14 is Flag Day, commemorating Congress’ adoption of the red-white-and-blue flag with 13 stars on June 14, 1777. President Harry S. Truman designated the day as National Flag Day in 1949.

A 1914 photo of the Star-Spangled Banner undergoing conservation in the Smithsonian Castle Smithsonian Institution Archives On a rainy September 13, 1814, British warships sent a downpour of ...

People carry an "Appeal To Heaven" flag as they gather to support President Donald Trump during a visit to the National Constitution Center to participate in the ABC News town hall, Sept. 15, 2020 ...

Markievicz banner "discovered" by raiding British soldiers The banner found at Countess Markiewicz's home in Dublin was housed in London's Imperial War Museum until shortly before 2016.

The Fort McHenry Flag. Tom McMillan, an award winning author of several works in American history, with ties to the Antietam Institute, the Gettysburg Foundation, and the Friends of Flight 93 National ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize Christian nationalism and the ...

Although “The Star-Spangled Banner” and all of its verses were immediately famous, Key’s overt racism prevented it from becoming the national anthem while he was alive, Morley wrote.

New Zealand debates dropping British flag from national ensign. One of New Zealand's largest newspapers has called for the 108-year-old flag, and the Union Flag ensign in its top left corner, to ...

On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, a large anti-Trump banner with the message 'Trump: Climate Genocide' was unfurled in front of the Parliament in London.

The current flag was adopted at the start of the 20th century and features the British Union Flag in the top-left corner with the four red stars of the Southern Cross on a blue background.