The True Story of the American Flag

Name: The True Story of the American Flag
Author: John Henry Fow

by John Henry Fow

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by K. Nordquist, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2009-01-08

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Flags -- United States

About the author

John Henry Fow

1851–1915

Best known for challenging popular legends about the U.S. flag, this early-20th-century writer dug into records and historical evidence to tell a different story. His work is especially remembered for questioning the Betsy Ross tradition and tracing how the stars and stripes actually developed.

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