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 ...

The basic story here is simple enough: they are taking down the Star-Spangled Banner, the giant American flag that hangs in the National Museum of American History, for a three-year conservation ...

Matthew Calbraith Perry plans to visit a far-flung island south of Tokyo where his famed namesake ancestor gave a 31-star U.S. flag to an American immigrant some 170 years ago. The 80-year-old ...

"Flags have a hard life," says Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss, chief conservator of the Star-Spangled Banner Project at the National Museum of American History. "The amount of wind damage that happens ...