I photograph people with the Stars and Stripes and ask them what the flag means to them. Pictured here is retired Marine ...

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 ...

Just a quick question, though: do you know how many stars and stripes are on the American flag? It seems a like a question that any citizen would know the answer to, sure, but there's actually ...

That giant flag, one of the Smithsonian's proudest treasures ... and suddenly meet the Stars and Stripes, feel a wrenching emotional surge — the pulse quickens, breath shortens, the throat ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

passing into one family's private possession and emerging as a public treasure. Succeeding generations loved and honored the Stars and Stripes, but this flag in particular provided a unique ...