June 14th is Flag Day, celebrating the day in 1777 when the Continental Congress passed a resolution setting out the basic design of the American Flag. And someone, somewhere, had to make the very ...

Q. An owner in our condominium building has placed two flags in his windows. One is the traditional stars and stripes (13 Stripes, 50 stars). The other is the Betsy Ross Colonial flag with 13 stripes ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution. The young Philadelphia seamstress stitched the original Old Glory in the summer of 1776 at the request ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — 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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Karen Butler, Executive Director at the Betsy Ross home in Philadelphia, gives the history of Betsy Ross and her contribution to the creation of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The woman often credited ...

The U.S. Capitol is seen past American flags on the National Mall, Friday, June 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. TOPEKA — The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request ...