The thirty-eight star centennial banner whose concentric circles of states celebrated a reunited republic's first hundred years of improbable survival.
Thirty-Eight Star Concentric Circles Flag — the American flag of 1877 whose distinctive arrangement of thirty-eight stars in concentric circular patterns on the blue canton represented one of the most visually elegant of the many unofficial star arrangements that flag makers and military units devised in the era before the federal government standardized star placement in 1912, the flag of the republic's centennial decade when the United States, having survived the catastrophe of the Civil War and the turbulent incomplete revolution of Reconstruction, was taking stock of its first hundred years of existence and finding in the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia — the great world's fair that displayed American industrial, agricultural, and cultural achievement to an international audience — an occasion for national self-celebration whose confidence was shadowed by the unresolved contradictions of a reunification that had freed four million enslaved people but left the promise of their full citizenship to be betrayed by the Compromise of 1877. The Thirty-Eight Star Flag — flying over a United States whose Reconstruction governments in the southern states were being dismantled by the withdrawal of federal troops that the Compromise of 1877 formalized, whose transcontinental railroad completed in 1869 was binding the continent into a single economic unit and driving the final dispossession of the Plains Indian nations whose resistance at the Little Bighorn in 1876 delivered Custer's Last Stand as a shock to national confidence even as the centennial celebrations proclaimed American triumph, and whose industrial revolution was transforming the republic from an agrarian democracy into the world's most dynamic industrial economy with consequences for labor, immigration, and social organization that would define the Gilded Age — represents the flag of a nation at the hinge between its founding ideals and its industrial future. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that pivotal legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.
HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry historical flags of America. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the proud history of America.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt is made especially for you as soon as you place an order.
Few more things to know about this sweatshirt: • Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience • Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture • Custom print-on-demand • 50% cotton, 50% polyester • Unisex regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric • Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem
