The dressmaker , Betsy Ross , used the same colors as the British flag - red , white , and blue — and the same thirteen stripes as the Grand Union flag . But in place of the Union Jack , she sewed thirteen white stars on a blue ...
An introduction to the history of the American flag, from colonial times to the present.
Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett have managed the impossible: a few months of peace and quiet.
Stars and Stripes: : Serving in Iraq
"As a burgeoning nation that had fought hard for its independence, late eighteenth-century America was quick to develop visual symbols to represent the newfound freedom and unity of its citizens...