The crazy flag designs… that could have been our new flag

The American flag is so familiar, but do you know that the design could have been something you would not recognize? Back in 1958, as talk of the admission of two new states to the union swept the country, the Eisenhower administration was deluged with varying designs for a new 50-star flag. "People begin sending in ideas for how the new flag should look," said Dr. Jim Ginther, the Supervisory Archivist for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas, which has ke