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

According to the National Flag Day Foundation headquartered there, a 19-year-old teacher in a one-room school, Bernard Cigrand, put a small flag on his desk and had students write essays about ...

Early in the week, a 21-year-old woman who identified herself only as Jade bought a Mexican flag and joined a rowdy crowd of protesters on Alameda Street. "These are our people," she told a ...

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.

The flag is a physical object “that people can relate to,” said Charles Spain, ... Michigan has collected about 240 old battle flags and had a display in its Capitol rotunda for decades.

The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose from the Civil War, when the need to keep the banner aloft in battle led the Union army to treat the deadly job of flag bearer as a ...