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the Public Schools of America,” a printed page “first published March 31” and carrying the advisory, “This should be Printed in every Newspaper in the State.” FJBP.

———. “Official Program, The National School Celebration of Columbus Day, October 21, 1892,” 3 pages, no date. FJBP.

“Khrushchev Tirade Again Irks Envoys.” New York Times. November 19, 1956.

“A Columbian Public School Celebration.” New York Tribune. February 18, 1892. From one-page “Extract.” FJBP. Includes “the full text of the Resolutions presented by Dr. W. T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education.”

Nussbaum, M., and J. Cohen. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism. Cambridge, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1996.

O’Leary, Cecilia Elizabeth. To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Paul, Marilyn H. “I Pledge Allegiance . . .” Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, Winter 1992.

Penton, James M. Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. First published in 1985.

Peters, Shawn Francis. Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Piscatelli, Jennifer. “Pledge of Allegiance.” Education Commission of the States, 2003. Available at www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/47/20/4720.htm.

Ravitch, Diane. Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

———. “Teaching History in a Time of Terror.” Center for Education Reform, October 1, 2001. Available at http://www.edreform.com/Resources/Editorials/?Teaching_History_in_a_Time_Of_Terror&year=2001. Downloaded January 2010.

Rubel, David, ed. The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Dandy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals. New York: Sterling, 2008.

Salamida, Steven. “Spirit of Pledge Shines on Bellamy Day,” Rome (New York) Daily Sentinel, September 8, 1992.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Politics of Upheaval: The Age of Roosevelt, 1935–1936. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1960; New York: Mariner, 2003.

School Journal, The. “Who Originated Columbus School Day?” November 12, 1892. Page 436. The story is “signed” as by “Patriotism,” and there is a 4-page typescript version of same story, with handwritten corrections. FJBP.

Sica, Morris G. “The School Flag Movement: Origin and Influence.” Social Education, October 1990.

Strayer, Martha. The D.A.R.: An Informal History. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1958.

Swanson, June. I Pledge Allegiance. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2002. This is a children’s book. Pictures by Rick Hanson.

Time magazine. “Heroes: Upham Furled.” May 29, 1939.

———. “We Will Bury You!” November 26, 1956.

Valeri, Mark. Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Wellner, Alison Stein, “The Perils of Patriotism.” American Demographics, September 2002.

West, Cornel. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. New York: Penguin, 2004.

Westheimer, Joel. Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America’s Schools. Foreword by Howard Zinn. Teaching for Social Justice Series. New York: Teachers College Press, 2007. Contributions in this book are from some of the nation’s leading thinkers about education, including Diane Ravitch (“Celebrating America”), Charles Payne (“No Black in the Union Jack: The Ambivalent Patriotism of Black Americans”), Pedro Noguera and Robby Cohen (“Educators in the War on Terrorism”), Deborah Meier (“On Patriotism and the Yankees: Lessons Learned from Being a Fan”), Bill Bigelow (“Patriotism Makes Kids Stupid”), William Ayers (“Hearts and Minds: Military Recruitment and the High School Battlefield”), Chester Finn, Jr. (“Teaching Patriotism—with Conviction”), and Studs Terkel (“A Small Space of Sanity”).

White, Edward G. The Constitution and the New Deal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press: 2000.

Youth’s Companion. “American

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