Not all U.S. state flags are created equal—some have become flashpoints for political, cultural, and historical controversy.

Since 1895, the Alabama state flag has been a crimson St. Andrew’s cross on a rectangular field of white. The design was likely intended to “preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive ...

Leading U.S. designers reinterpreted state and territory flags for an installation at Rockefeller Center.

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