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 ...

While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not ...

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, ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific ...

Students have spent the past weeks studying the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They learned American flag etiquette, how to raise it, fold it and properly dispose of it. Teacher Ken Britcher has ...

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 ...

Noa Reuveni, an Israeli activist, participated in the weekly “Cleveland Run for Their Lives” on Sept. 15 at La Place Center ...

With the flick of a pen, San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially made the rainbow pride flag that flies over the Castro ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and ...