The Star-Spangled Banner Preservation, 1914, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History In 1878, New York stockbroker Eben Appleton inherited the Star-Spangled Banner, the very flag that ...

Removed from exhibit in 1998 for a conservation project that cost about $7 million, the Star-Spangled Banner, as it had become known, returns to center stage this month with the reopening of the ...

sound culture is a Folklife Festival podcast series featuring stories, songs, and fieldwork gathered on the National Mall and around the world. The Star Spangled Banner (Folklife Remix) from a ...

The museums of the Smithsonian Institute are among America’s great treasures. Within the span of a few city blocks in the nation’s capital, you can see the tattered flag that inspired Francis Scott ...

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: We have a tour of the Smithsonian Institution. The Trump administration made a list of complaints about how the Washington Museum complex portrays American history. So we went ...