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 ...

Every country has a flag to represent it. In the United States, Old Glory's familiar red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes ...

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 ...

The Paris kit, it is understood, will take on more traditional red, white and blue colours alongside the usual flag and are closer to a classic Team GB design. The new flags, which have been contr ...