The American flag, also known as the Stars and Stripes, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating between red and white, and a blue rectangle in the canton ...

Celebrating the Stars and Stripes: Honoring the American Flag on Flag Day today, June 14, we commemorate the adoption of the United States flag, a symbol of freedom, unity, and patriotism that has ...

That all changed on June 14, 1777, when Congress passed the Flag Resolution of 1777, establishing the U.S. flag with 13 alternating stripes of red and white, and a union of white stars on a blue ...

Artist Lisa Jeanne GrafIn revised the flag in 2000, and in 2007 "June 19, 1865" was added to represent the date the legal decree was issued to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, the Jan. 1 ...

The Kennedy Center’s exterior lighting will now “permanently feature the colors of red, white and blue,” according to a statement released Tuesday. “The lights are a beautiful reminder of ...

It’s Flag Day, a day that honors the adoption of the United States flag on June 14, 1777.The original resolution declared the flag would have 13 alternating red and white stripes and a blue ...

Dubai’s massive skyscraper measures in at over 2,716 feet tall — nearly 1,000 feet taller than Manhattan’s Freedom Tower, which stands 1,776 feet tall.