As I have pledged allegiance to our nation’s flag at various events, I have often wondered why we call our flag “Old Glory.” ...

This coming Friday will mark the 249th birthday of our nation, and as has been the theme for so many years past, it will be filled with many celebrations, marked by parades, patriotic music, and ...

Dear editor, Troubled feelings started when the American flag was thrust in my face. I understood the message: true ...

I hate to be that guy, but Betsy Ross didn’t sew the America flag. Her grandson even said she didn’t on the 100th anniversary of America. Just a part of the folk legend, I guess. Don't be salty. Tell ...

Domestic companies that manufacture American flags are crying foul over attempts by Chinese companies to corner the market – ...

The story that Ross sewed (and essentially designed) the "first American flag" was first related nearly a century after the fact by her grandson, William Canby, and has been widely dismissed by ...

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.

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

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by Saturday’s modern Flag Day.

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

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman.