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As we approach Flag Day on June 14, we reflect on how our flag came to be and the etiquette surrounding our nation’s symbol.
A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, ...
With Flag Day landing June 14 and in light of the political climate, we are wondering how you feel about America’s flag.
Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the deep history of Allen University in Columbia, its African Methodist Episcopal ...
American history, but another defining moment for the fledgling nation comes a few weeks earlier. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress officially adopted the Stars and Stripes as the United ...
The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — ...
As we approach Flag Day and an upcoming Flag Retirement Ceremony on June 14 at the Cambridge Legion, we reflect on how our flag came to be and the ...
Some groups will spend Flag Day undertaking the solemn duty of properly disposing of American flags that are past their prime ...
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according ...