Betsy Ross is credited with sewing the first American flag in 1776 from her home in Philadelphia, while the colonies were ...

A small crowd assembled on the lawn in front of the Fargo Civic Center Tuesday for a rally featuring a potent mix of politics and religion. They heard from a woman dressed up as Betsy Ross, and from a ...

On Wednesday, the city of Heyburn unveiled its America 250 monument.

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves.

While women in New Jersey had few rights, they stepped up during the Revolution, caring for troops, loading cannon in battle, ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution. The young Philadelphia seamstress stitched the original Old Glory in the summer of 1776 at the request ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marla Miller, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) For generations, most Americans knew – ...