It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

and is the source of the term now applied generically to all American flags. “It represents success, righteousness, sovereignty,” says museum director John Gray, but also a conflict that is ...

The real reason why American flags are backwards on race cars At its most basic, American flags are sometimes depicted backwards on race cars in order to illustrate movement. Specifically ...