A History of the American Flag

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The American flag is something that is recognized around the world. The flag isn’t just flown on flag poles, but it is on clothing, lapel pins, and bumper stickers, and it is used as a backdrop for all manner of politicians. However, there hasn’t been just one American flag. In fact, in the almost 250 years the United States has been in existence, they have switched flags, on average, almost once a decade. Learn more about the history of the American flag and its many iterations on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Expedition Unknown Find out the truth behind popular, bizarre legends. Expedition Unknown, a podcast from Discovery, chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates unsolved iconic stories across the globe. With direct audio from the hit TV show, you’ll hear Gates explore stories like the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in the South Pacific and the location of Captain Morgan's treasure in Panama. These authentic, roughshod journeys help Gates separate fact from fiction and learn the truth behind these compelling stories. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The flag is something that is recognized around the world.
0:03.0	The flag isn't just flown on flag poles, but it's on clothing, lapel pins, bumper stickers,
0:08.0	and it's used as a backdrop for all manner of politicians.
0:11.0	However, there hasn't been just one American flag. In fact, in the
0:15.8	almost 250 years the United States has been in existence, they have switched flags on
0:20.4	average almost once a decade.
0:23.0	Learn more about the history of the American flag
0:25.0	and its many iterations on this episode of
0:28.0	Everything Everywhere Daily. The Every country has a flag, but as you'll soon see there's something different about the flag of the United States.
0:50.0	In that it has a built-in mechanism for being changed, which is the reason why I'm doing an episode on it.
0:57.0	But before we get into that, first a brief history of flags themselves.
1:01.0	The original purpose of flags was to visually identify units on a battlefield.
1:06.0	Eventually, the flags were used off the battlefield to identify who ruled a particular building or territory.
1:11.0	They would usually fly the code of arms of whoever the ruler of a
1:14.5	particular area was. Eventually the traditions of flags was extended to ships and republics
1:20.1	and by the 18th century pretty much every country had a flag that served as a means of national
1:25.0	identification and unity.
1:27.3	The subject of flags generally will be for a future episode.
1:31.6	When revolution broke out between the 13 American colonies and the British in 1775,
1:36.0	there were no formal structures in place for the colonies to act as a cohesive unit,
1:40.0	and there certainly were no formal flags. During the Battle of Lexington and Concord,
1:45.9	or during the Siege of Boston, for example, the colonists would probably have not flown any flags at all.
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