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 was made during the summer of 1813 as a simple garrison flag, but after the British attacked Baltimore in 1814, it gained recognition as the "Star Spangled Banner". The flag became a valued ...

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 ...

Decades of careful restoration and study have revealed a lot about the flag that flew over Fort McHenry after its defenders fought off a naval attack during the War of 1812: the swatches taken as ...

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 ...

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 ...