An official flag code adopted in the 1920s included a revised version of Bellamy’s Pledge of Allegiance. It added “the flag of the United States of America” because of anti-immigrant ...

A company in Charleston, South Carolina, is proudly manufacturing American flags sourced and sewn by skilled seamstresses in ...

Through it all, Bellamy's Pledge of Allegiance endures, deeply ingrained in American culture. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it ...

Seventy one years ago – December 22, 1942 – Congress got the United States out of what had turned into an unexpectedly embarrassing situation. It concerned the Pledge of Allegiance ...

Ironically, the Pledge of Allegiance, which today is most fiercely defended by white conservative Southerners whose Confederate ancestors tried to destroy the United States in the 1860s, was ...

According to Minnesota’s statute (2022) 121A.11, Subd. 3.Pledge of Allegiance. (a) All public and charter school students shall recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States ...

Even in many authoritarian states, the requirement that children (and athletes) swear fealty to the nation (or, as here, its flag) would be considered too creepy to contemplate.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an act of performative patriotism rooted in nativism and bigotry. After 9/11, many more states began mandating it in schools.

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America. Pressuring folks into reciting the current pledge violates the values of the Constitution. It should be banned in schools ...

The American flag and the Christian Bible have been adopted as symbols of the far right. Moderate and liberal-leaning folks now shy away from these symbols. We must take back our symbols.

Seventy one years ago – December 22, 1942 – Congress got the United States out of what had turned into an unexpectedly embarrassing situation. It concerned the Pledge of Allegiance ...