I photograph people with the Stars and Stripes and ask them what the flag means to them. Pictured here is retired Marine ...

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 ...

At a time when President Donald Trump is implementing numerous potential changes to the United States government, people became aware of nine stars on American flags on official government websites.

The basic story here is simple enough: they are taking down the Star-Spangled Banner, the giant American flag that hangs in ... Armistead's widow cut out one of the stars to give to a political ...

It was, of course, the huge American ... Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer "still there." The effects of age brought it down — something the British failed to do 186 years ago. That giant flag ...