Red, White, & Blue To-Do celebration on July 2 will commemorate a day of “pomp and parade,” as declared by John Adams in 1776 ...

America turns 250 years old in 2026 and Philadelphia -- the place the United States was born -- is ready to celebrate with the world with a year's worth of firsts.

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 ...

It will come as a surprise to many that the Polish flag has two variants. The basic one is the already-described red-and-white rectangle, which can always be seen on the streets of Poland on public ...

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 ...