white or blue and marked Fort McHenry — the Smithsonian Institution would like to know. Two hundred years after a massive flag was hoisted over the fort in Baltimore that withstood a British ...

white or blue and marked Fort McHenry -- the Smithsonian Institution would like to know. Two hundred years after a massive flag was hoisted over the fort in Baltimore that withstood a British ...

The flag has been at Smithsonian for more than a century after being given to the institution by the family of Maj. George Armistead. Armistead was the commander of Fort McHenry and the man who ...

white or blue and marked Fort McHenry – the Smithsonian Institution would like to know. Two hundred years after a massive flag was hoisted over the fort in Baltimore that withstood a British ...

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907 ... the commander of Fort McHenry. Knowing that his fort was a likely British target, Armistead, in the summer of 1813 ...

Several times during the night he wondered if the city’s last defense, Fort McHenry ... why for nearly a century now the Smithsonian has cared for the flag, preserved it and made it available ...

the Fort McHenry flag —and every American flag — resonates as a symbol of freedom, opportunity, equality around the world and of the individual rights that form the linchpin of our democracy. Lonnie G ...

Bunch III - Smithsonian Institution Never has public access ... from the aforementioned flag that flew over Fort McHenry, to the portable desk Thomas Jefferson used to pen the Declaration of ...

Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... The American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to ...

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, to the portable ...