June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress issued ... Visit the O Say Can You See blog for pointers on U.S. Flag Code, or learn more about the Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

1. c: The printed copies distributed to state delegations and others originally bore just two signatures: those of Congress ...

“At the time they were adopted, the Articles created the strongest confederation in history,” according to Rowland Young in ...

Presented by Miss Alice Driggs. BETSY ROSS FLAG - 1777 The first American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes. Adopted June 14, 1777. A field of blue with a circle of 13 white stars and 13 alternating ...

No matter who you ask, everyone has an opinion on the American flag. The United States flag has a nearly 250-year history as ...

It’s time for all Americans to take it back and display it as the symbol it was meant to be: the flag of one nation, ...

The American flag is supposed to stand for something much different: “One nation under God, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all.” The country did not live up to that promise during ...

Section 53-3-165 of the South Carolina Code of Laws designates the third Friday in September of each year as POW/MIA Recognition Day in South Carolina and provides that flags be flown at half-staff. S ...

Throughout the relatively short history of the US, it’s become a tradition that presidents have their coffins draped in the ...

on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's birthday dates to 1885 when schoolteacher BJ Cigrand organized a ...

Could you pass a more simple version of the U.S. citizenship test? Immigrants seeking to become United States citizens have ...