June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress issued a resolution making the Stars and Stripes the nation's flag. Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See ...

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 ...

Some interpret the red, white and blue stripes as the highways that will take the scattered Assyrians back to their ancestral homeland. Above the blue star is the image of the Assyrian god Assur, who ...

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress resolved that America’s flag should feature 13 white stars on a blue field and 13 alternating red and white stripes, chosen to represent the 13 ...

These stripes switch between red and white on every other ... Again, there isn't an official meaning behind the flag's colors, but PBS states that "blue represents vigilance, perseverance, and ...

In 2024, roughly a year after lawmakers unveiled the new flag, a Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of Utah ...