Each day across America, in classrooms big and small, at city schools and rural ones students recite the pledge of allegiance. But why? Let's go back in time: It's 1892 and Chicago is preparing for ...

(The Conversation) — On Flag Day, a historian of religions in America explains how the Pledge of Allegiance, which honors the American flag, is part of American civil religion. (The Conversation) — ...

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 ...