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 ... the Smithsonian's ...

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 ...

imagine a regular American flag, but remove the red line from the right of the starfield and the white and red line below, and replace them with a navy blue stripe, a royal blue stripe ...