Historically, the backward flag can be traced back to the Civil War. During the war, troop had flag bearers who would carry ...

According to her in an Instagram Reel, a graphic of an American flag with 50 individual stars just wouldn't fit on most government websites without being incredibly hard to see. She even went back ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

The basic story here is simple enough: they are taking down the Star-Spangled Banner, the giant American flag that hangs in the National Museum of American History, for a three-year conservation ...