During the Vietnam War, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, also known as the Viet Cong, used a flag with a red and blue background and a central yellow star. The red symbolized the ...

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 ...

The red, white, and blue stands both for Old Glory and the tricolor of France, which also flew over the state. Lincoln’s ...