Marc Leepson
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Historian and journalist Marc Leepson is the author of nine books, including What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life; Saving Monticello; and Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Army Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler; among others. A former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, he also edited The Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War. He taught U.S. history at Lord Fairfax Community College in Warrenton, Virginia.
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Betsy Ross was an American seamstress who, according to family stories, fashioned and helped design the first flag of the United States. Elizabeth Griscom, the eighth of 17 children, was brought up as a member of the Society of Friends, educated in Quaker schools, and became an apprentice to a…
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