US 250th Anniversary: America's Flag Wasn't Always The Same | Here's Why It Changed | MUST WATCH

US 250th Anniversary: America's Flag Wasn't Always The Same | Here's Why It Changed | MUST WATCH

The American flag hasn’t changed since 1960, when Hawaii entered the Union, but it’s the 29th iteration of the Stars and Stripes. Jason Opal, dean and director of The Ohio State University at Mansfield, traces the history of the flag from the Betsy Ross story to the national identity sparked by the War of 1812 to the flag’s growing symbolic significance as the American experience has expanded on a national scale. Opal, also a professor of history, explains the intentional design of the stripes representing the nation’s founding 13 states and the stars, representing all states, on a dark blue background like the night sky, symbolizing the Union – the idea that the United States had to be invented because the states otherwise weren’t naturally a nation. Opal also discusses how the Stars and Stripes resembles the flag of the East India Company, the British Empire’s powerful trading company.


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