"In December 1776, there was a young and very beautiful ... "She continued to tell the story of how she made the first American flag to her children and grandchildren," the museum reports.

THIS is the first salute ever pay'd to the American ... To the original salute given the American flag in 1776, Rodney referred when he wrote home in February, 1781; another Englishman adding ...

“In the darkest hours of 9/11 when our country was at risk of losing all hope, the raising of this American flag by our first responders ... River on December 25, 1776. It is remembered in ...

It's red, white and blue—and a proud symbol of African American history. Meet the Juneteenth flag. The post The Juneteenth ...

Over the weeks in 1776 needed to complete ... into a global superpower. “The flag was really an afterthought,” says Scot Guenter, author of “The American Flag, 1777-1924” and a professor ...

SHEPLEY, (Chief of Staff to Major-General WEITZEL,) formerly Military Governor of New-Orleans, subsequently of Norfolk, and more recently of Richmond, raised the first real American flag ...

Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the American flag of the United States ... perseverance and justice. The flag was first created in 1776 and has been changed 26 times, to accommodate the ...

It begins with the first sentence of the Constitution ... to preserve the founding ideals of 1776 at Gastonia.” The requirement to fly an American flag is likely untested territory in North ...