Several of the users spreading the claim said the flag originated with the Confederacy and the U.S. Civil War, referencing it ...

The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

But in 1861, the American Union fell apart. 11 southern states came ... While the United States fought the war under the Stars and Stripes flag, also known as the Star-Spangled Banner, which ...

The Framers of that Constitution bequeathed to us not a static set of rules but a perpetual duty to keep struggling to build, in their words, “a more perfect union.” The American flag embodies ...

The U.S. flag code says American flags should not be displayed upside-down except as a signal of “dire distress,” but free ...

This meant that it was trying to secede from the union and required its own flag. The first North Carolina state flag in history was heavily inspired by the first Confederate States of America flag.