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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.
The 13-star flag officially became the U.S. flag on June 14, 1777, and the date is celebrated every year in the United States as Flag Day. Though there is no conclusive proof, Francis Hopkinson, a ...
Flag Day celebrates the symbolism and history of the American flag on June 14. The U.S. has celebrated the adoption of the Stars and Stripes in a variety of ways when President Woodrow Wilson ...
The exhibition does not include some controversial alterations of American flags seen today, such as the Blues Lives Matter flag, on which all color is blacked out save a single blue stripe, designed ...
Replicas of historic American flags, including Betsy Ross’ Stars and Stripes and the flag bearing the Revolutionary War militia motto “Don’t Tread on Me,” will fly in Arlington Heights ...
At its best, flags can be powerful symbols. Flags can represent pride, hope, resilience, history, and the future. At the worst, they are symbols of hate and can incite fear and trigger trauma ...
After former President Donald Trump’s historic felony conviction, many of his supporters protested the verdict by posting images of an American flag flipped upside down on social media.
A historically inaccurate American flag appears to show a 50-state banner in a scene that takes place in 1945 -- despite the country having 48 states at the time.