If you haven't paid careful attention to flagpoles in the state, Ohio's banner is not your typical rectangle. Here's why.

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

Independence Day is a quintessential American holiday and the flag is its most visible symbol, but many Americans are unaware ...

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: * The Union defeated the Confederacy. * The ...

On a cold winters day fitting for the occasion, Alaska became an official “United State” on January 3, 1959, however, you ...

A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, ...

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 ...

In 1816, the King Kamehameha I then adopted a flag with nine horizontal stripes alternating from red, white and blue, and the Union Jack in the canton.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman.