By Karal Ann Marling

The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in the winter of 1776, received an urgent message. "Please fix upon some particular color for a flag." It was from an understandably exasperated George Washington. The Continental Armies had taken the field under a babble of emblems and devices. Even the Grand Union flag that flew over naval vessels confused the issue with its display of the crosses of the British flag in its canton. Every era has a flag story to tell.

So, at Washington's request, Congress again wrestled with the design, and on June 14, 1777, almost a year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on the date still celebrated as Flag Day, the United States finally had a flag all its own.

Old Glory: Unfurling History describes the histories and myths surrounding the flag of the United States of America from its revolutionary birth to the present day, and is lavishly illustrated from the archives of the Library of Congress.

Bunker Hill Publishing in association with the Library of Congress
Hardcover, 6 by 6 inches, 64 pages, 50 color illustrations
ISBN 1-59373-019-5

Price: $10.95

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Product #: 21107073