In general, however, straight rows of stars and proportions similar to those later adopted officially were used. The principal acts affecting the flag of the United States are the following: ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same ...

President Joe Biden issued a directive stating that U.S. flags will be flown at half-staff for 30 days from the day of Jimmy ...

Flags are flying at half-staff in honor of late former president Jimmy Carter, which Trump believes will be a distraction ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...

The practice of carrying the nations’ flags first began at the Games of the IV Olympiad in 1908 in London. The United States flagbearer at the 1908 London Games ... Phelps is the most decorated ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Absent a U.S. flag, the public civil discourse can ... from our books or not allowing discussion of it. Not all history of the United States is to be proud of, but we should remain aware of ...