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 ...

PLYMOUTH, Mich. (WXYZ) - A Michigan middle school student claims she was racially discriminated against after choosing to remain seated for the Pledge of Allegiance ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Lawmakers at the Ohio Statehouse want Ohio school districts to create a policy for students to cite the Pledge of Allegiance. Ohio House Bill 117 would require the board of ...