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.

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 ...

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according ...

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

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

in 1776, George Washington commissioned Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross to create a flag for the new nation,” The Library of Congress says. “Scholars, however, credit the flag’s design to ...

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 ...