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The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
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These iconic and motivational quotes from U.S. presidents will stand the test of time. The post 40 Inspiring Presidential Quotes That Will Make You Proud to Be an American appeared first on Reader ...
The Flag Resolution stated "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." [2] [3] Flag Day was first proposed in 1861 to rally support for the Union side of the American Civil War.
Flag: An American Biography. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-32308-5. Mastai, Boleslaw; Mastai, Marie-Louise D'Otrange (1973). The Stars and the Stripes. The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the Republic to the Present'. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-47217-9. Miller, Marla R. (2010). Betsy Ross and the Making of ...
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Cigrand was appointed editor-in-chief and wrote articles in the magazine as well as in other magazines and newspapers to promote the holiday. On the third Saturday in June 1894, a public school children’s celebration of Flag Day took place in Chicago at Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks.