Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner was chosen. Of nearly 385,000 votes cast, the existing bunting received 43% ...

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 ...

According to Section 8 of the Flag Code, the flag should never have any “mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, ...