The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

The story that Ross sewed (and essentially designed) the "first American flag" was first related nearly a century after the ...

President Woodrow Wilson and President Calvin Coolidge each issued presidential proclamations asking for June 14 to be ...

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

In Betsy Ross’ day, flags marked ships and told soldiers where they should move in the confusion of battlefield smoke and noise. The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose ...

Celebrated each year on June 14, Flag Day commemorates the 1777 approval of a national flag design by the Continental ...

This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.

This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.

June 14 commemorates the date in 1777 when the U.S. approved Betsy Ross' creation of the Stars and Stripes as our national flag. Several people in history are tied to the day of remembrance ...