On a standard American flag, there are 50 stars ... Again, there isn't an official meaning behind the flag's colors, but PBS states that "blue represents vigilance, perseverance, and justice." ...

Another National Forest has an American Flag hanging upside down from it following the U.S. Forest Service's decision to remove regulations for logging.

Historically, the backward flag can be traced back to the Civil War. During the war, troop had flag bearers who would carry ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been criticized for a flag flown at his New Jersey vacation house that has ties to both the American Revolution and far-right ideologies. The “Appeal to ...

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 ...

He more likely named the flag when reflecting on his adventurous 20-year career as an American merchant seaman who sailed to China, India, Gibraltar and throughout the South Pacific, at one point ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Tim Marshall, the author of "Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags," explains why American flags are reversed on military uniforms. Following is a transcript of the video. A lot of ...

Is that a state or federal law or some bogus HOA rule? I always thought that flying the American flag upside down meant that our country was in deep trouble, such as during the past four years ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...