Many people believe that General George Washington visited seamstress Betsy Ross in June, 1776 to ask her to sew a stars-and-stripes flag that would become the first official flag of the new country.
Now a museum, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia is the house where Ross is purported to have made her famous flag.
Common Place is a site exploring early American history that calls itself "a bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine."
While admitting that historians agree that there are no primary sources to support the Ross tale, the Revolutionary War Archives present the "overwhelming circumstantial evidence in support of Betsy."
USFlag.org explores the ubiquity and appeal of the Ross story.
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This week we travel back in American history to the time of thirteen colonies struggling to free themselves from the rule of the British monarch. The story of the creation of the Declaration of Independence is a dramatic one, and I've found some excellen
In July of 1776, bells rang out over Philadelphia signaling the approval of Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.
In June of 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in congressionally imposed secrecy.
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights are the focus of this site from the U.
From the Library of Congress, Today in History covers events from American history with extensive links into their American Memory collection for more depth.
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