author
Addie Guthrie Weaver
Best known for writing about the history and symbolism of the American flag, this late-19th-century author brought patriotic history to a broad popular audience. Her best-known work centers on Betsy Ross and the story of the first U.S. flag.
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The Story of Our Flag, Colonial and National With Historical Sketch of the Quakeress Betsy Ross
by Addie Guthrie Weaver
About the author
Addie Guthrie Weaver was an American writer associated with patriotic historical writing in the late 1800s. The work most clearly linked to her is The Story of Our Flag, Colonial and National, published in 1898, a book that explores the origins and meaning of the U.S. flag and gives special attention to Betsy Ross.
From the book's prefatory material, Weaver appears to have taken a personal interest in the Betsy Ross tradition and drew on information from Ross descendants while preparing the work. That helps explain the book's warm, accessible tone: it reads less like dry scholarship and more like an effort to share a piece of national memory with general readers.
Reliable biographical details about Weaver herself are limited in the sources I could confirm. What stands out most is her role in preserving and popularizing an influential patriotic story for readers at the end of the 19th century.