Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue

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. Learn about the Star-Spangled Banner and U.S. Flag Code at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Flag, United States, Freedom 7 Flight

1889 - 1893 Jewett Washington Curtis's Pieced Bedcover

Rocky III boxing trunks

5c Register and Vote single

Stars and Cans

Russell Means

Children Playing at Dockside

Presorted First-Class (23c) USA Flag Reflection

Washington Crossing the Delaware: American Flag, Boat, and Soldiers

Old Glory #5

Untitled, from the portfolio Photographs by Washington Photographers

Woman Suffrage Postcard, 1911

1876 - 1878 Esther Cooley's "1876 Centennial" Quilt

World War II Patriotic cover

Pin, Postage Stamp, Apollo moon landings

The Star Spangled Banner

Flag, United States of America, Apollo 11

Flag, United States, Flown on STS-1, Sally Ride

Flag, United States, 48 Star, Lt. Herbert Peters

G Postcard Rate (20c) Old Glory single

The Pride of the Ocean

American Flag

American Flag Beadwork

American flag recovered from the World Trade Center

G Rate (32c) Old Glory booklet single

Memorial poster for Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."--John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962. From the series Great Ideas.

33c Stars and Stripes pane of twenty

Quilt

Flag quilt

Handkerchief

Soldiers Training

Stamp with illustration of US flag and blue and purple mountains in bottom right corner

44c Flags of our Nation IV: America single

American Flag Moccasins, 1870s

Flag, United States 48 Star, Gen. Claire Chennault Headquarters

5c Savings Bonds-Servicemen single

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