The 'Appeal to Heaven' flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks ...

which studies flags and their meaning, said the “Appeal to Heaven” banner dates to the Revolutionary War ... He added: “People misuse our symbols all the time. It doesn’t mean we don ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

The Place de la Bastille is often considered the epicenter of the French Revolution. It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the ...

Now this improbable survivor, nearly 250 years old, is regarded as a hallowed relic of the Revolutionary War, a symbol of the American republic—even, by some, as the first Oval Office.