Description Physical Description Cloth consisting of a blue canton with 34 white stars in the upper left quadrant and thirteen equally positioned stripes, 7 red and 6 white. General History The United ...

At a time when President Donald Trump is implementing numerous potential changes to the United States government, people became aware of nine stars on American flags on official government ...

Between 1777 and 1960, the United States Congress passed several laws that changed the shape, design, and arrangement of the flag. The current version dates from 4 July 1960, after Hawaii had ...

Flags are at half-staff this weekend in seven U.S. states to honor the memory and passing of several public servants and ...

That's the meaning of the flag we celebrate on Flag Day — June 14. Since 1954, when the clause was added to the Pledge of Allegiance, we even celebrate it under God. But in our disunited United ...

From the time the Continental Congress gave the stars and stripes its stamp of approval in 1777 amid the American Revolution, the flag of the United States of America has been an emblematic symbol ...

A Confederate battle flag marks the graves of soldiers in the Confederate States Army in the U.S. Civil War in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina June 22, 2015.

He lobbied year after year in an attempt to have an official National Flag Day established by the United States government. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson declared June 14 as Flag Day.

The United States flagbearer at the 1908 London Games, Ralph Rose, failed to dip the Stars and Stripes as the Americans passed King Edward in the opening parade. Olympic lore has it that Rose’s ...

The Supreme Court declared on June 11, 1990, that laws against desecrating the flag are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled on June 11, 1990. ... In United States v.