Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

With that said, keep reading for some fun and interesting American Flag facts. Folks across the nation will observe Memorial Day this May, and Flag Day follows shortly after on June 14.

The United States became a nation in 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, severing the ...

On August 19, 2014, The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, accepted her donation of the original flag as a part of their LGBTQ+ collection. It is still there ...

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 ...

Rochester, New York native Angela flies a rainbow American flag outside of their house, but it was looking like it had seen better days. A neighbor who they had hardly spoken to before left a ...

Embracing the flag does not mean papering over stains in our history or actions by our government ... At its best, the American flag embodies our national identity which, over 240 years, has ...

It only took a wave of the American flag to have a town council in New Jersey waving the white flag. The stars-and stripes battle began when the Edison town council implemented a ban on props last ...