Tag: Flag Day

She’s a Grand Old Flag! Records About Flag Day, the American Flag in the National Register of Historic Places

by John LeGloahec, posted in Military Records, Presidents

To celebrate Flag Day, Cartoonist Clifford Berryman has Uncle Sam both singing and conducting "The Star Spangled Banner" while an enormous American flag waves in the background. (National Archives Identifier 6011566) June 14 is known as Flag Day, which commemorates the date on which the American flag was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777.  … Continue reading She’s a Grand Old Flag! Records About Flag Day, the American Flag in the National Register of Historic Places

A Flag for the United Nations

by ncurrie, posted in State and Foreign Affairs, World War II

Today's post was written by David Langbart, Reference Archivist at the National Archives at College Park. John Kelly, a respected columnist for the Washington Post, recently (June 14, 2016) wrote about Brooks Harding’s “Four Freedoms Flag.”  Harding designed the flag to represent the countries fighting against Axis tyranny during World War II, commonly referred to … Continue reading A Flag for the United Nations