Philly artists stitched together their red, white, and blue designs to create a massive American flag fit for the United States Semiquincentennial.

The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to an 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War and then popularized in art, poetry and song.

The phrase has inspired several flag adaptations in honor of police forces, including one of the British Union Jack and one of the American flag. The American version is the typical “Stars and Stripes ...

A black-and-white American flag with a thin blue line across its center appeared among the Confederate flags toted by the white supremacists and neo-Nazis during the violent protests.

Like other mash-ups of identity flags with the American flag, the thin blue line flag is a rallying point for a marginalized identity, a way to lay claim to the American birthright, a demand for ...

Before the flag came the phrase. The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to a 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War and then popularized in ...