Congress adopted "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem the next year. When war threatened Washington in 1942, Smithsonian officials quietly whisked the flag and other treasures to a ...

It opened in January 1964. Smithsonian Institution Archives The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the lyrics to our national anthem, is on display in its own protective chamber.

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 ...

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

They didn’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 the free and the home of the brave?

No star-spangled tour is complete without a trip to this Smithsonian museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which is home to the flag itself ... the Star-Spangled Banner Trail, a ...

And we discover the work of the women behind another of America's most famous flags: the Star Spangled Banner. Sidedoor is a production of the Smithsonian Institutuion. More than 155 million ...

(WHTM) — On this day in 1931, it became the law of the land: The Star Spangled Banner was the official ... Thrilled by the sight of the American flag still flying over the fort after a night ...