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 ...

On a standard American flag, there are 50 stars ... There's also the Bennington Flag, an additional variation inherited through the Fillmore family around the 1800s. There's no confirmed date ...

Tim Marshall, the author of "Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags," explains why American flags are reversed on military uniforms. Following is a transcript of the video. A lot of ...

The Hawaiian flag and the Lone Star Flag are the only two state flags that served as the flag of an independent nation. The ...