1777 – The first American flag was adopted on June 14 ... that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation," an excerpt from the Journals of the ...

the American flag has undergone various changes before Congress in 1818 settled on the basic design we have today -- 13 stripes to represent the original 13 colonies and white stars on a blue ...

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 ...

Named after the American general and politician Christopher Gadsen (1724-180), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution, this is one of the first flags ever flown over American soil ...

outlining the purpose for a united American flag for the 13 colonies: “The flag of the United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white ...

There are 13 stripes on a standard American flag, alternating between red and ... that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” ...

PHILADELPHIA — In the bedroom of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of where the upholsterer worked on her most famous commission, a long flag with a circle of 13 ...

History of the design of the American flag which will ... Congress adopted a resolution for a flag with thirteen red & white stripes & thirteen stars, white in a blue field. As new states came ...

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...