In December 1860, the Macon Daily Telegraph reported that a rattlesnake flag with “Don’t Tread on Me” had been raised by the Rev. J.R. Willis at a pro-secession rally in Indian Springs, Ga.

Tea Party activists waved the “Don’t Tread on Me” banner during anti-Obama protests. 5 Jaiden Rodriguez, 12, was kicked out of his classroom for wearing a patch of the flag on his backpack.

I have a “Don’t Tread On Me” specialty license plate and it’s not because I’m “anti-government, anti-democracy, an insurrectionist, racist” or a member of a “gun toting militia.” ...

A "Don't Tread On Me" patch is seen on the jacket of Joey Gibson, leader of Patriot Prayer. The Patriot Prayer movement's march for Kathryn Steinle was interrupted by Rose City Antifa in downtown ...

One of the flags which has gained national interest during this time of terrorism is the early American flag with the words "Don't Tread on Me." That flag has a very interesting history. The has on… ...

The Navy's new working uniform features a version of a flag with a rattlesnake and the phrase the "Don't Tread on Me" on the left shoulder. But the First Navy Jack is similar to the Rattlesnake ...

Melissa Block speaks to Joseph Ellis, professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, about the history of the "Don't Tread on Me" flag and its use by the Tea Party movement.

In more recent years, the "Don't Tread on Me" flag has been seen by some as racist, tinged with its own ties to the Confederacy and slavery.Extremists carried the flag at Charlottesville in 2017 ...

His town put up a donated "Don't Tread on Me" flag on April 15 and "it will probably fly there forever," he said. The whole episode is "a slap in the face of veterans," Brabenec said. "This is a ...

'Don't Tread on Me' license plate letters rile readers who respond with their own views. ... History is not here for us to like or dislike, approve or disapprove, but to learn from.