“Bang,” one of the men says. After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S ...

1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism takes an interesting look ... Dolly Madison), villains (James Wilkinson), or just ordinary folk. She ends the book with a discussion of how the post-war ...

Jay Newton-Small wonders why there isn’t more interest in commemorating the War of 1812: But even though the U.S. won it [bold mine-DL], the War of 1812 seems to be the buck-toothed stepsister ...

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it—the ...

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. Pp. x, 350. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 0806190825 The Empire State at War New York’s War of 1812 does much to expose the key role of ...

But in her magisterial new history of the constitutional debates of the era, legal historian Alison LaCroix expands her (and our) horizons beyond the modest contributions of the Supreme Court of the ...