Historically, the backward flag can be traced back to the Civil War. During the war, troop had flag bearers who would carry ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag ... The principal acts affecting the flag of the United States are the following: ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...