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 ...

A lesbian pride flag was designed in 2010 featuring a red lip mark in the corner ... the traditional color for baby boys, two pink stripes representing the traditional color for baby girls, and a ...

There are 13 stripes on most American flags you'll see in public! These stripes switch between red and white on every other ...

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 ...