WASHINGTON >> If you happen to find some remnants of woven wool in your attic – in red, white or blue and marked Fort McHenry – the Smithsonian Institution would like to know.Two hundred years ...

The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George Armistead, the commander of Fort McHenry. Knowing that his fort was a likely British target, Armistead, in ...

If you happen to find some remnants of woven wool in your attic -- in red, white or blue and marked Fort McHenry -- the Smithsonian Institution would like to know.

Restoration of Fort McHenry flag nearly complete. ... "The first time I saw it, my stomach just dropped," said Marilyn Zoidis, the Smithsonian's senior curator for the flag.

WASHINGTON — If you happen to find some remnants of woven wool in your attic — in red, white or blue and marked Fort McHenry — the Smithsonian Institution would like to know.

WASHINGTON — If you happen to find some remnants of woven wool in your attic — in red, white or blue and marked Fort McHenry — the Smithsonian Institution would like to know. Two hundred ...

In 1880 the fragments were presented to William Carter by Eben Appleton, the grandson of the commander of Fort McHenry. Carter, a local historian, carried the Star Spangled Banner in a parade during ...

WASHINGTON — The original, handwritten manuscript of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the flag that inspired the song’s lyrics will be displayed together at the Smithsonian in… ...

Editor’s Note: Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Carla Hayden is the Librarian of Congress. Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States. The views expressed in ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

The American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” is just one of the precious ...

The Smithsonian’s artifacts and archives capture the sweep of American history and the nation’s democratic principles, from the aforementioned flag that flew over Fort McHenry, ...