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 few weeks ago, I was attending a breakfast meeting with a friend. We were asked to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. She rolled her eyes, a gesture which I don’t think anyone else in the ...

This column publishes between June 14 (Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the US flag in 1777) and July 4 (day designated as Independence Day, commemorating the ratification of the Declaration of ...

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 ...

FERGUS FALLS, MINN. – Stephen Vigesaa doesn’t strike the casual observer as a subversive kind of guy. The father of three, including two daughters in high school, serves on the Fergus Falls school ...

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