The blue and pink colors are the traditional ... Helms donated the flag to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2014. Her 2019 autobiography, “More Than Just a Flag ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

That is to say, the canton (the top left corner), which houses the blue ... a flag into battle. During the American Civil War, it was considered a position of honor to carry the colors into ...