The story that Ross sewed (and essentially designed) the "first American flag" was first related nearly a century after the ...

Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution ... her shop in May or June 1776, according to the Ross family's later flag origin story.

The Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia recently uncovered new evidence supporting the claim that a seamstress sewed the first Stars and Stripes national flag in 1776 at her upholstery shop on Arch ...

Other nations, for the most part, reserve the flying of their national colors for government buildings and ceremonial events ...

Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold ... Historians have backed away from the claim that Ross sewed the first American flag in 1776 at her upholstery shop on Arch Street, for lack of concrete ...

Celebrated each year on June 14, Flag Day commemorates the 1777 approval of a national flag design by the Continental ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

DID Betsy Ross make and design the first American flag? View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

In the bedroom of the Betsy ... flag with a circle of 13 stars hangs over a Chippendale side chair and extends across the floor. Over the weeks in 1776 needed to complete the project, Ross would ...