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 A...
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New York :
Knox Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- An American icon
- Family of fighters
- "A flag so big"
- War with England-- again
- A most gallant defense
- "O say can you see?"
- Fame interrupted
- Guardians of the banner
- Civil unrest/civil war
- The rebel Armistead
- "There is our flag!"
- A home for all time
- Becoming the anthem
- National treasure
- Modern-day unrest
- Appendix: Another family gift to the nation
- Appendix B: Where is the missing star?
- Appendix C: Fort McHenry: star-spangled icon.
