David Renner says he is facing a $200 fine for flying a Betsy Ross flag outside his townhouse in Littleton, Colo.

Did you know that the American flag has changed many times since Betsy Ross' first rendition? Betsy Ross will always be known as the first flag trailblazer! CC BY History101, Evolution of the ...

Seamstress Betsy Ross is the subject of flag folklore, but written evidence points to Francis Hopkinson as the true American flag designer.

In her myth-busting biography Betsy Ross and the Making of America , historian Marla Miller sets the record straight on the history surrounding one of the most famous women of the Colonial era.

SB 1049 says the American Revolution flag joins an assortment of other banners homeowner associations in Arizona cannot regulate.

The Gadsden flag, named after the 18th-century general and politician Christopher Gadsden, has also been used as a countercultural and anarchist emblem.

DID BETSY ROSS MAKE THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG?; There Are Those Who Claim This Honor for a Boston Man, Quoting in His Favor a Certain Statement from an Official Record.

In Betsy Ross’ day, flags marked ships and told soldiers where they should move in the confusion of battlefield smoke and noise. The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose ...

Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia. She was an upholsterer by trade, which in the 1700s included all kinds of sewing tasks, including making flags.

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag. Betsy Ross may ...