A late 18th-century version of the American flag is making 2019 headlines. Nike has pulled shoes featuring a "Betsy Ross flag" after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick said the design was ...

So who was Betsy Ross? And why is the flag often attributed to her a source of controversy for some? Here's what we know: That depends who you ask, though generally it is not viewed that way.

While Democrats and media pundits pounce to decry the Betsy Ross flag as racially problematic -- with one even likening the symbol to Nazi swastikas -- the very same flag flew prominently during t ...

Visiting Philadelphia’s Betsy Ross House any time during its Flag Festival is like being ... a wind sock from poster board, streamers, stickers and markers, or a five-pointed “stained glass ...

On Monday evening, Nike announced it would be pulling a new edition of Fourth of July-themed sneakers featuring the original United States flag as designed by Betsy Ross, with 13 stars in a circle.

A Henry Mosler painting 'The Birth of the Flag' depicts Betsy Ross and her assistants sewing the first American flag, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1777. A Henry Mosler painting 'The Birth of the ...

ANNANDALE, Va. — Nike has stirred a debate about whether the Betsy Ross flag is patriotic or offensive after revealing and then pulling Fourth of July sneakers baring the Betsy Ross flag.

Nike came under fire on Tuesday after the company stopped selling a Fourth of July shoe that featured the so-called ‘Betsy Ross flag.’ Concerns about the flag’s adoption by extremist groups ...

Don’t let the right wing co-opt this symbol of American history! Don’t let them take the Betsy Ross flag! I say, they can have it. Really, it’s fine. They can have that and the Confederate ...

A worker folds a newly made Betsy Ross flag in Salt Lake City on July 5. (George Frey/Getty Images) I really don’t know whether Kate Cohen’s July 12 op-ed, “The far right can take the Betsy ...

It wasn’t until a century after the Revolutionary War—in a time of flag fervor—that the Philadelphia seamstress’ story became an urban legend. Although seamstress Betsy Ross is often ...

In her myth-busting biography Betsy Ross and the Making of America, historian Marla Miller sets the record straight on the history surrounding one of the most famous women of the Colonial era.