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. Visit the O Say Can You See ...

Some interpret the red, white and blue stripes as the highways that will take the scattered Assyrians back to their ancestral homeland. Above the blue star is the image of the Assyrian god Assur, who ...

These stripes switch between red and white on every other line ... Again, there isn't an official meaning behind the flag's colors, but PBS states that "blue represents vigilance, perseverance ...

Colorado’s “purple mountain majesties” didn’t make the cut, apparently. But here’s why red, white, blue and gold did.