{"title":"The Phenomenon of Flag Homes: Musings on Meanings","authors":"Scot M. Guenter","doi":"10.5840/raven2015222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/raven2015222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124620705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Flag on Prospect Hill: A Response to Byron DeLear","authors":"Peter Ansoff","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2015221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2015221","url":null,"abstract":"On 1 January 1776, a flag was hoisted on Prospect Hill, outside Boston, to mark the establishment of the American Continental Army. Since 1849, histories of the Revolutionary War have stated that the flag was the so-called “Grand Union” flag, consisting of 13 red and white stripes with the British union crosses in the canton. (Figure 1) In 2006, at a meeting of the Flag House Symposium in Baltimore, I presented a hypothesis that the flag raised on that historic occasion was actually a British union flag. (Figure 2)1 In October 2013, Byron DeLear presented a paper at the NAVA 47 conference in Salt Lake City that challenged my hypothesis, and asserted that the historical facts support the “conventional history.”2 This paper will show that DeLear did not fully address the arguments presented in my original paper, and that the evidence he presented fails to support his conclusions and in some cases actually contradicts them.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133337928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Slaves: Kanye West, Brad Paisley, and Contemporary Confederate-Flag Discourse in Popular Music Iconography","authors":"K. Hartvigsen","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2015223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2015223","url":null,"abstract":"One hundred and fifty years after Appomattox, the iconographic remains of America’s Civil War are still contested symbolic artifacts. Case in point: at the writing of this paper a state bill sat on California Governor Jerry Brown’s desk which would ban the sale of the Confederate flag or any merchandise with Confederate flag imagery on state property. Thus California has become the most recent battleground of the war between the states, or to word it in more precise language, California legislators have entered the debate over who controls a flag’s meaning and memory.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129148663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flags and Emblems of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Vexillidolatry in its Purest Form","authors":"Deanna Thomas","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2014215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2014215","url":null,"abstract":"Vexillidolatry—the reverence of flags—is not uncommon around the world. People in all countries gravitate around their national flag to some degree. However, one country stands out in its reverence of its national and internal flags and emblems. Known popularly as North Korea, this country’s formal name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and it is there that love of the flag is taken VERY seriously.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125792018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill: Grand Union or Just British?","authors":"Byron DeLear","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2014213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2014213","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research has questioned whether the Grand Union flag (a.k.a. “Continental Colors”) really flew at Prospect Hill, Boston, on 1 January 1776. Eyewitness accounts use the term “union flag” and a new interpretation theorizes this to have referred specifically to the British Union Jack and not the characteristic “union flag with 13 red-and-white stripes.” This paper rebuts the new interpretation and supports the conventional history through an examination of eighteenth-century linguistic standards, contextual historical trends, and additional primary and secondary sources.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124791060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terrible as an Army with Banners","authors":"R. Bennett","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2014211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2014211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123769301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contested Symbolism in the Flags of New World Slave Risings","authors":"Steven A. Knowlton","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2014214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2014214","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the summer of 1800, an enslaved blacksmith of Richmond, Virginia, named Gabriel conspired with fellow bondspeople to rise in arms and fight for their freedom. Among his plans was a scheme to paint a flag with the phrase “Death or Liberty” to be carried at the head of the column that would march into the city.1 Gabriel’s slogan inverted the words of his fellow Virginian Patrick Henry, whose famous oration on the eve of the American Revolution concluded, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”2","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122501887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moncton, New Brunswick","authors":"Luc Baronian","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN20111857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN20111857","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114322408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}