The history of the United States flag dates back centuries, to the time of the revolution when American colonists sought to separate from the British Empire. However, for more than 245 years, the ...

The first official national flag was approved by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. It is widely believed, but not confirmed, that Betsy Ross sewed the first American Flag.

1. The original American flag didn’t have to look like it did. The original flag resolution only called for 13 red and white stripes along with 13 white stars on a blue field.

The First Flag Stories. Share full article. Dec. 25, 1865. ... This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

All honor to the officers who placed the guidons there; but as a matter of historic fact and interest, they who raised the first real American flag over Richmond, the central point of slavery ...

But Wilson wasn’t the first to have the idea of honoring the flag on June 14. Bernard Cigrand, a small-town Wisconsin teacher, came up with the idea in 1885, to celebrate an annual flag day ...