There'll also be concerts near Independence Mall to mark the day the Continental Congress voted to declare independence in ...

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that ...

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

This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her ...

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

Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the Stars and Stripes on June 14, 1777, and explores the enduring legend of Betsy Ross, ...

I’m going to be talking about the American Flag and what it means to me. First I’ll talk about what I feel when I look at it, then I ...

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

As we approach Flag Day and an upcoming Flag Retirement Ceremony on June 14 at the Cambridge Legion, we reflect on how our ...

On June 14, 1777 the American Congress “… resolved that the flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternating red and white that the union be 13 stars white in a blue field, representing a new ...