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 ...

Every morning, country musician Neal McCoy grabs his phone, opens up the Facebook app and starts a live video stream, inviting thousands of fans to say the Pledge of Allegiance with him.