The Supreme Court and Old Glory were linked in controversy more recently, when photographs surfaced of a flag flown upside-down from a pole at Justice Samuel Alito’s home in January 2020.

The Daughters or the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution held a flag raising ceremony on Thursday, ...

Ross was originally buried in a Free Quaker graveyard, but was moved when the city took over that land. She rested in Moriah from 1954 until her reburial in the mid-1970s at her namesake house in Old ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman.

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first The U.S. Capitol is seen past American flags on the National Mall, Friday, June 6, 2025, on the ...

The woman often credited with sewing the first national US flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by Saturday’s modern Flag Day.

In Betsy Ross' day, flags marked ships and told soldiers where they should move in the confusion of battlefield smoke and noise. The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose from ...

In 1891, Philadelphia held its first — at one of Ross' former homes — and it evolved into an annual, weeklong Flag Fest. The small village of Waubeka, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, claims the ...