In many schools across America, every day when students enter their school classroom in the morning, they are expected to recite a pledge of allegiance to the United States flag with their classmates.

(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) — ...

The Continental Congress, the legislative body for the newly declared United States, adopted an official flag on June 14, 1777. The delegates resolved that “the flag of the United States be thirteen ...