The flag’s 13 alternating red and white stripes represent the 13 original colonies. Its 50 white stars on a blue field represent the 50 states, says USA.gov.

There are 13 stripes on a standard American flag, alternating between red and white. The flag also has 50 stars, which are white and set against a blue background in the upper left corner. They ...

From these Puritan beginnings, the red-and-white-striped flag gradually took on a national symbolism. It appeared in New York during the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, with nine red and white stripes ...

The Grand Union Flag featured the same 13 alternating red and white stripes as the current U.S. flag; but instead of the blue field of stars in the canton, the flag had a small British Union Flag ...

The MLB has officially released the 2025 Fourth of July baseball caps, and this Stars and Stripes collection should be a massive hit.

On June 14 of that year, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution that says: Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be ...