Just a quick question, though: do you know how many stars and stripes are on the American flag? It seems a like a question ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

Because it's not a mark of disrespect to them; it's a mark of respect to the American flag. And they take it so seriously that it must always face forward. Now, on a flagpole that puts the stars ...

the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes as the Flag's Birthday. Cigrand, now known as the Father of Flag Day, continued to publicly advocate the observance of June ...

Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording ...

The term Gold Star family is a modern reference that comes from the Service Flag. These flags/banners were first flown by families during World War I. The flag included a blue star for every ...

Matthew Calbraith Perry plans to visit a far-flung island south of Tokyo where his famed namesake ancestor gave a 31-star U.S. flag to an American immigrant some 170 years ago. The 80-year-old ...

have spun up new versions of the flag, incorporating their own symbols within the circle of 13 stars. Historically, flying ...

the Irish Citizen Army Flag, of the Plough and the Stars, was flown over the Imperial Hotel. Connolly’s choice to fly the ‘starry plough’ not above the GPO but across the road above the ...

Toshiya loved American sports and culture ... Everywhere she went in the United States, she saw Stars and Stripes flags. It was surreal to her. She asked an employee of the Japanese consulate ...

The City of Franklin is waving the white flag, at least for now, after pushback over an ordinance limiting the number of flags residents could fly.

The National flag should never be flown above another country’s flag on the same staff as this would suggest superiority, or conversely, inferiority of one flag, or nation, over another.