John Monsky is a collector of stories. They live within the stars and stripes of American flags — or, at the very least, what ...

Flags for Fort Snelling” has revived the tradition of placing an American flag at every gravestone on Memorial Day. The ...

The U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, placed more than 260,000 flags at headstones in Arlington ...

So let's take a look at the evolution of the Stars and Stripes through the years ... stars that marks the upper-left corner of the American flag. When Virginia decided to secede from the United ...

You will typically see the Black American Heritage Flag flown during Black History Month ... the ups and downs that Charles ...

"The rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air/Gave proof through the ... National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. It’s known as the Great Garrison Flag. The fort’s star ...

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 Museum of the American Revolution shows ... union in its upper left corner. The flag was repainted with 13 stripes following the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, but some of the ...

symbolism and usage of flags.) Matthew Ward is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He notes that the American flag is distinctively powerful and seems to be ...

There’s a long history of American flag-flipping in political protest, too. At an anti-slavery rally on July 4, 1854, in Massachusetts, abolitionist speakers William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner ...