During the American Revolution—and before the United States standardized its familiar stars and stripes—the patriots carried hundreds of different flags. Decorated with classical figures, animals and ...

The upside down flag traces its origins to the sea, where sailors flew them as a signal of distress to other maritime ...

The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals ... of revolutionary thought as the colonists began to take up arms against the British. The earliest flags of rebellion include ...

The U.S. flag represents the enduring values of the American project. The thirteen stripes honor the thirteen original colonies that boldly declared independence from British tyranny, while the fifty ...