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 ...

I don’t understand terrorism or war at all,” she said. Everywhere she went in the United States, she saw Stars and Stripes flags. It was surreal to her. She asked an employee of the Japanese ...

Takashi Savory, a resident of far-flung Chichijima island in the Ogasawara island chain, was presented with a replica of the Stars and Stripes flag that ... 6,886 islanders. One of the conscripts ...