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Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance, which was first published in The Youth's Companion in 1892 as part of a campaign to promote patriotism led by James B. Upham and Francis Bellamy.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
''For over one hundred years, it has been deeply ingrained in American culture. Saluting the flag in public schools began as part of a national effort to Americanize immigrants, its final six words imbuing it with universal hope and breathtaking power. Now Richard Ellis unfurls the fascinating history of the Pledge of Allegiance and of the debates and controversies that have sometimes surrounded it. For anyone who has ever recited those thirty-one...
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