2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Our Flag Was Still There with Tom McMillan

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 2024 – thanks to three generations of an enduring military family, the Armisteads, who defended, kept, hid, and ultimately donated the most famous flag in American history.

A lifelong student of history, Tom McMillan has served on the board of trustees of the Heinz History Center, the board of directors of the Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial, the board of directors of the Antietam Institute, and the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation. He has written three previous books on American history, two of them on the Battle of Gettysburg. McMillan recently retired after a 43-year career in sports media and communications, including 25 years as VP of Communications for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He has a journalism degree from Point Park University and resides with his family in Pittsburgh and Gettysburg.

2nd Saturday Lectures made possible by the Massey Charitable Trust.