Flags aren't just colorful pieces of fabric waving in the wind; they're symbols, each one packed with history, identity and ...

France’s use of red, white and blue similarly shaped other flags, demonstrating how one country’s colors can affect many others. Red, white and blue are also common colors due to their ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress issued a resolution making the Stars and Stripes the nation's flag. Enjoy a little red, white, and blue from across the Smithsonian. Visit the O Say Can You See ...

Some interpret the red, white and blue stripes as the highways that will take the scattered Assyrians back to their ancestral homeland. Above the blue star is the image of the Assyrian god Assur, who ...