The Daughters or the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution held a flag raising ceremony on Thursday, ...

Despite the urban myth surrounding Betsy Ross, scholars and historians agree that she likely did not create the original U.S. flag.

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. He declared in a ...

Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia. She was an upholsterer by trade, which in the 1700s included all kinds of sewing tasks, including making flags.

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — In the bedroom of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of where the upholsterer worked on her most famous commission, a long flag with a circle of 13 stars hangs over a ...

Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia. She was an upholsterer by trade, which in the 1700s included all kinds of sewing tasks, including making flags.

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country's promise — sometimes dotted along ...

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag.

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose from the Civil War.