In honor of Flag Day, let’s remember Bob Heft, the high schooler who turned a homework assignment into a piece of history.

America’s Flag Day marks the Second Continental Congress’s adoption of the first U.S. national flag on June 14, 1777. The ...

With its broad stripes and bright stars, our nation’s flag demands respect. But ask an expert (which is to say, a vexillologist) and it turns out that all flags are NOT created equal. Mo Rocca takes a ...

Sunday, June 14 is Flag Day, and the first designs for the Stars and Stripes began in 1776. Congress adopted the red, white ...

Let’s try this again. A team of historians has taken another crack at developing South Carolina’s new state flag design after their first attempt was so widely mocked it had to be scrapped. This time ...

But in an historic first for the state and historic last for the country, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill into law on Tuesday that not only removes that battle emblem from its flag, but ...

HAVE YOU ever met a vexed vexillologist? This is someone who frets when flags are badly designed. Sadly, too many flags flutter to deceive: they are cluttered with imagery, a mess of colours and all ...

After learning about Betsy Ross, you probably didn’t give much thought to how the subsequent U.S flags were designed. It might seem like a no-brainer; flagmakers just added a new star for every new ...

The Opening Ceremony is a crowd favorite, thanks to the overwrought national showmanship (and the inevitable memes it tends to spawn). Since the very beginning, countries have been symbolically ...