Illustration: depiction of the story of Betsy Ross presenting the first American flag to General George Washington, by Edward Percy Moran, c. 1917. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Flag Day: How Betsy Ross Came to Be Known as the First Flag Maker

By Jane Cook on June 14, 2021

In this article, for Flag Day, Jane Hampton Cook searches old newspapers to learn more about the apocryphal story of Betsy Ross and America’s first flag... (Read More)