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

For years, Eric Conrad had a small wooden table near the kitchen of his home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Covered by a protective pane of glass, it typically held a bouquet of fresh flowers from his ...

For generations, most Americans knew – and maybe believed – a story about upholstery seamstress Betsy Ross and the making of the nation’s first flag. In the account passed down through her family, ...

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 ...

It wasn’t until a century after the Revolutionary War—in a time of flag fervor—that the Philadelphia seamstress’ story became an urban legend. Although seamstress Betsy Ross is often credited as the ...

It began with an unmarked, unremarkable box tucked in a corner of a garage in California. Inside, under miscellaneous letters and old high school yearbooks, was a smaller shoe box. Inside that, under ...