The Pine Tree Flag waves at the annual commemorations of the 1772 Pine Tree Riot in Weare, N.H., one of the first acts of resistance against British authority by American colonists.

A Pine Tree flag, a symbol originally from the Revolutionary War but more recently linked to groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol, has been removed from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza.

And one way that a symbol can become marginalized is if people who are mainstream and who like it give up on it and they say, "I'm not going to fly the Gadsden flag anymore because somebody at a ...

episode 3 The Gadsden Flag The “Don’t Tread on Me” flag is such a potent symbol of independence that it has been co-opted by a wide variety of Americans over its long history. Episode 3 ...