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, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Karen Butler, Executive Director at the Betsy Ross home in Philadelphia, gives the history of Betsy Ross and her contribution to the creation of the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by Saturday's modern ...

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 ...

Welcome back for a simply patriotic episode of I Never Knew That! You know the American flag by its plethora of nicknames: Old Glory; the Star-Spangled Banner; and the Red, White, and Blue, to cover ...

You’ve heard the legendary tale. But stitching America’s first flag is just a small part of the Betsy Ross story. Courageous rebel… Grieving widow… Working mom… Business owner… Survivor. When you ...

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold, using period materials and technique, are sewing a ...

In 1777, The Betsy Ross Flag was adopted by the thirteen colonies fighting for freedom as the United States’ first official flag. But not everyone in America was free. Untold is a free collection of ...