The beauty that an American flag ... star is added to the flag on the 4th of July after a new state becomes officially recognized. Why are there 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes on the flag?

It was, of course, the huge American flag ... Stripes, feel a wrenching emotional surge — the pulse quickens, breath shortens, the throat tightens. In Alice Duer Miller's narrative poem "The ...

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 ...