"Nike made the decision to halt distribution of ... "Indeed, calling it the Betsy Ross flag is misleading." ...

Welcome back for a simply patriotic episode of I Never Knew That!You know the American flag by its plethora of nicknames: Old ...

with some questioning whether Ross created the flag. Legend has it that the first American flag was made by Betsy Ross, an upholsterer from Philadelphia. The U.S. Department of the Interior ...

“Every historian who’s looked into it has found no credible evidence that Betsy Ross made the first American flag, or helped design it, or even that there was a flag committee,” says ...

On June 14, 1777 the American Congress “… resolved that the flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternating red and white that the union be 13 stars white in a blue field, representing a new ...

“Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes ... abc27 newsletters here Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia.

1. Betsy Ross made the first American flag. The Betsy Ross story is the most tenacious piece of fiction involving the flag. There simply is no credible historical evidence — letters, diaries ...

We don't really know who made the first American flag ... to our thoughtful love of America" each year. Did Betsy Ross make the first flag? Betsy Ross, the famed Philadelphia seamstress, is ...

However, no evidence exists that Ross made the first American flag or that she made the one now known as the "Betsy Ross flag." What's Undetermined Because no documentation exists of Ross ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most ... "She continued to tell the story of how she made the first American flag to her children and grandchildren," the museum reports.

Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold ... “We do have a receipt for the second flag that she made for Washington, from about a year later in 1777, and we know from oral history that she contributed ...