[Ads-l] Pledge of Allegiance

[Amy West]

Yep, it was picked up by the Sunday Boston Globe, too.

(But I heard about it here first. :-) )

---Amy West

On 4/4/22 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Sun, 3 Apr 2022 18:00:47 +0000
> From:    Margaret Winters<mewinters at WAYNE.EDU>
> Subject: Pledge of Allegiance
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> ArtDaily Newsletter picked up the NYTimes article and reprinted it in today's issue (a very good consolidator of all sorts of arts news in the form of a daily email with links, for those who do not know it):  More congratulations to Fred Shapiro and Barry Popik!!!
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> https://artdaily.cc/news/145145/We-know-the-Pledge--Its-author--maybe-not-#.YknfBDUpCUk
> We know the Pledge. Its author, maybe not.<https://artdaily.cc/news/145145/We-know-the-Pledge--Its-author--maybe-not-#.YknfBDUpCUk>
> Fred R. Shapiro, the associate library director for collections and special projects at Yale Law School, in New Haven on March 25, 2022. More than a century after a Baptist minister from upstate New York took credit for writing the Pledge of Allegiance, new evidence suggests the possibility of a very different story.
> artdaily.cc
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
> Former Provost
> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, MI  48202
>
> mewinters at wayne.edu

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