Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years-And the Armistead Family Who Saved It

Our Flag Was Still There details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spangled Banner-from Fort McHenry in 1814, when Francis Scott Key first saw it, to the Smithsonian in 2023-and the enduring family who defended, kept, hid, and ultimately donated the most famous flag in American history.

Francis Scott Key saw the original Star-Spangled Banner flying over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814, following a twenty-five-hour bombardment by the British Navy, ins...