It’s official! Congress finally worked together to designate the Bald Eagle our national bird. How reassuring that our public servants roosting in Washington have chosen to honor an esteemed ...

The bald eagle ... of the bald eagle. This is not the whole story, according to the Franklin Institute. Franklin did criticize the eagle and praise the turkey in a letter to his daughter, but ...

The bald eagle has been a symbol of the United States for centuries, with its iconography plastered across currency, documents, flags, stamps, government buildings, military uniforms and more.