The First Flag

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The flag was so unimportant that the continental congress didn't even bother to specify where to put the stars and stripes. So it's possible that he designed the flag, and then george washington asked betsy ross to you bring the hopkinson, you know, design to life. And ideally there would be a paper trail laying all this history out, but there just isn't.

Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. At least, that's what we were taught in school. But when historians go searching…there’s no proof to be found. In this collaboration with the podcast Sidedoor, we unravel this vexillological tall tale to find out how this myth got started, and who Betsy Ross really was.

Plus we talk about the real flag that inspired the song, The Star Spangled Banner.

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