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This Stars and Stripes Pie is designed to wow on the Fourth of July

Stacey Mei Yan Fong suggests making a Stars and Stripes Pie to wow folks at a Fourth of July barbecue

The Independent UK

What Betsy Ross’ real story tells us about women’s work in the Revolution − and why it still matters 250 years later

For generations, most Americans knew – and maybe believed – a story about upholstery seamstress Betsy Ross and the making of the nation’s first flag.

The Conversation

The place where the U.S. Constitution was drafted is now flying a communist flag

It's controversial, to say the least.

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The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag

The Independent UK

The American flag wasn't always revered as it is today. At the beginning, it was an afterthought

The American flag will be flown throughout the country on July 4, but it wasn't always a revered and debated symbol

The Independent UK

Betsy Ross was buried three times. She’s not the only American with multiple graves

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

American Revolution Images Might Reveal You as a 'Violent Extremist,' Says the FBI

Instead, the feds are telling us something very revealing about themselves.

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10 Weirdest Facts About The American Revolution: Jefferson, Betsy Ross And The Ethiopian Regiment

In the classic movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of the characters offers the statement “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

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