The Pledge of Allegiance is just 31 words long. Its history, on the other hand, is quite lengthy. Francis Bellamy, a Christian minister, penned the patriotic sentence in 1892 to mark the 400th ...

For many Americans, the Pledge of Allegiance is the quintessential childhood ... In 1918, when a Mennonite father appealed the twenty-five-day jail sentence he had received for instructing his ...

When Mitt Romney uses the Pledge of Allegiance as a metaphor for all that's good and right with America, how many in his audience know that the two-sentence loyalty oath was penned not by the ...

Place your hand over your heart.” And yet after that epic lead-up he couldn’t even get past the first sentence. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,” he said.