Relates how a Philadelphia seamstress helped design and make the first flag to represent the United States of America

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That's up for debate, but "Who Was Betsy Ross?" tells the story of...

The personal struggles of the woman generally credited with having created the first American flag are set against the backdrop of the colonists' fight for independence