The American flag
Subtitle: two centuries of concord & conflict
By: Howard Michael Madaus and Whitney Smith ; introduction by Wayne Fields.
Contributors: Smith, Whitney.; Flag Research Center (U.S.)
Publisher: VZ Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Santa Cruz, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780975516805; 9780975516812
Subjects: Flags -- United States.; Flags -- United States -- History.
Other titles: Two centuries of concord and conflict
Notes: "Assistance in text and research was provided by the Flag Research Center, Box 580, Winchester, MA 01890-0880." -- (T.p. verso)

Includes index and glossary.
Table of contents: value: Gallery I, A new constellation: 13 stars and 13 stripes for a new nation; The Flag Resolution of 1777; value: Gallery II, A new star for every state; The Flag Act of 1794; value: Gallery III, The end of compromise: stars excluded stars defended; Exclusionary flags, 1850-1860; value: Gallery IV, Guides on the colors; American flags in conflict; value: Gallery V, Manifest destiny: new stars for a new land; The centennial celebration; value: Gallery VI, A symbol of world power: The stars & stripes at home and abroad; An equal among the world's powers; value: Epilogue, Patriotism at war / Henry Berger; value: Thoughts of a collector, Whose flag is it anyway? / Ben Reed Zaricor; value: Abraham Lincoln funeral flag (pg. 143); value: Stripes, stars and states (pg. 144)