The historian Richard J. Ellis, author of the 2005 book To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, acknowledges that the oath is “paradoxical and puzzling,” but he also ...

It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of Allegiance, partly as a cold war rejoinder to "godless" communism. We kept ...

Four takeaways from Tuesday's Supreme Court oral arguments in the case of Maryland parents hoping to opt out of LGBTQ ...

I am not sure when I first learned the Pledge of Allegiance to our American flag.