In the past four years, a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy have been torn down or removed. As we have seen before ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Meilan Solly is Smithsonian magazine's senior associate digital editor, history. On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by ...

The Olympic flag – one of the most recognisable symbols of the Olympic Games – was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress in 1914 in Paris in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Olympic ...