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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

“According to legend, in 1776, George Washington commissioned Philadelphia seamstress Betsy ... Even so, Ross most likely met Washington and certainly sewed early American flags in her family ...

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be ...