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 ...

A photo of two young boys who stopped to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in front of a North Carolina firehouse has gone viral. Over the weekend, Roseboro Fire Department posted an image of the boys ...

This fall, we will experience again an anniversary of significance. It was October 1892, when “children at schools across the country rose to their feet, faced a newly installed American flag and, for ...

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 ...

Back in 1892, James B. Upham was working for a magazine called "The Youth's Companion." He was in charge of a campaign to have schoolchildren participate in a flag ceremony to commemorate the 400th ...

A black-and-white photo that circulated on social media in March 2024 showed a Japanese American girl pledging allegiance to the U.S. flag before being incarcerated with her family during World War II ...

One Maryland public school was coerced into no longer requiring students and staff to recite the Pledge of Allegiance after a free speech group pushed back against what it called "mandatory patriotism ...

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 ...

His original pledge read, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands — one Nation indivisible — with Liberty and Justice for all.” The flag salute caught on, and by World ...