Fort McHenry guarded the entrance to the harbor of...  ...ripe for looting and the home port of many of the American privateers that had ravaged British shipping.On S...  ...race Wisher.In the 1870s, George Henry Preble, an American naval officer, wrote a series of histories of the...  ...aph of then 59-year old...

(Photo: NBC News)Jonathan Ielpi was a New York Cit...  ...ociation gave Ielpi's sister, Melissa Brengel, an American flag to honor her brother's sacrifice. The flag h...

Nothing proclaims 'Merica quite like purple potatoes! Er, I mean, bacon! Bevcooks of Rock Ur Party made this patriotic pizza with bacon, purple potatoes (or, as she calls them, "little blue disks of freedom"), alfredo sa...

During the six Apollo moon landings, astronau...  ...ing the six Apollo moon landings, astronauts left American flags planted into the lunar soil. NASA's Lunar Reconna...  ...s from Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) show the flags are still casting shadows - except the one plante...  ..."From the LROC images it...