In Betsy Ross' day, flags marked ships and told soldiers where they should move in the confusion of battlefield smoke and noise. The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose from ...

When the founding fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, their list of grievances with the English ...

At the Betsy Ross House, a flag bearing a circle of 13 stars for each of the colonies is flown. And at a family farm near Loring, Kansas, 38 stars are painted on the flag on its barn, the number ...

In Betsy Ross’ day, flags marked ships and told soldiers where they should move in the confusion of battlefield smoke and ...

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 modern Flag Day.

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 — ...

Observances preceded that, including in 1891 at a Philadelphia house of Betsy Ross. But the fervor for the flag that exists today has strong roots in the Civil War, when flag bearers were regarded ...

In 1891, Philadelphia held its first — at one of Ross’ former homes — and it evolved into an annual, weeklong Flag Fest. The small village of Waubeka, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, claims ...

Lisa Acker Moulder, director of the Betsy Ross House historical site in Philadelphia, said that for Ross, conferring with Washington would have been the key point of her account.