The anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. flag is celebrated each year on June 14. tiaramaio/RooM via Getty images The Continental Congress, the legislative body for the newly declared United States ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag… you know the rest. Like many of you, these words were a daily part of my schooling. But now these words cause division. “Has the pledge of allegiance become offensive?

Dear editor, It seems the Pledge of Allegiance is promoted, from time to time, as a historic document that proves our nation was founded on Christian principles. The history of the Pledge shows that ...

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The Arizona House on Tuesday approved what is perhaps the most unpatriotic bill of the year. The bill comes courtesy of Mesa Rep. Barbara Parker, one of the Legislature’s newest and most extreme ...

Vice President Kamala Harris flubbed the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the 119th Congress Friday prior to swearing in new United States Senators. Harris, who rose to the top of the Democratic ...

Since 2002, the Tennessee General Assembly has required public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Now, State Senator ...

Those seeking to revise a Southwest Vermont Union Elementary School District directive on recitation of the Pledge of ...

Donald Trump famously stumbled his way through the Pledge of Allegiance as president, but you probably remember it verbatim from recitations at school. All at once, everyone would lurch to their feet, ...

At the end of lessons each school day in the mid-1890s, Redlands teacher Mary Fackler would decide if students had behaved and done their schoolwork properly. If all had gone well, one student would ...

A local Democrat forgot the Pledge of Allegiance in her first meeting as a Miami city commissioner last week. Sabina Covo, who was elected as the Miami City District 2 commissioner on Feb. 27 in a ...