Prior to 1912, there was no standard arrangement for the stars on the flag. But when New Mexico and Arizona joined the Union in 1912, a national standard was finally adopted with the updated 48 ...

The flag that Americans will celebrate for Flag Day on Tuesday has a certain neatness to it: complementing the 13 stripes for the 13 original states, there are nine orderly rows of stars, totaling 50.

this 1938 educational film traces the origins of the U.S. flag through the centuries, beginning with the Union Jack and the flags of the first colonies of the New World. While its jolly patriotism ...