“The war was so ill conceived and ineptly run that the government wanted to forget the whole embarrassment almost from the moment it ended,” says Gordon Wood, a leading historian of the early United ...

There’s going to be a raft of books on the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, and one of the first is a fascinating look at a pivot point in naval warfare. In Knights of the Sea, author David Hanna ...

The War of 1812 is today a vague mystery, sometimes confused with the “1812 Overture” played at July 4 fireworks shows, but actually a Russia battle repelling an invasion by Emperor Napoleon.

Land hunger was also at work. Many Americans had their sights set on moving westward. They worried that Britain was helping Native American tribes block this westward expansion. Madison himself noted ...

A 1912 article in the Erie Times-News reported the first walk across a frozen Lake Erie. But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key ...

More than 100 people packed a room at James Monroe’s former home of Ash Lawn-Highland on Sunday to commemorate the 200th anniversary of a battle in Maryland. But not just any battle — this was the ...

Thursday marks the annual commemoration to honor the New York and Vermont militia who fought to keep the British from crossing Lake Champlain. The Crab Island Ceremony kicks off Plattsburgh's ...

More than 200 years after his death in the War of 1812, Lt. Henry Hobart of Gardiner was honored Sunday with a stone placed next to his mother’s at St. Ann’s Burying Ground. A marker has been placed ...

In the early years of the 19th century, the town of Keene prospered. As expanded transportation routes enabled the community to connect with the world, its residents were able to find work in a ...

“The Civil War is the American Iliad. The War of 1812 is a 19th-century version of Korea.” But he hopes the war’s 200th anniversary will finally bring a long overdue measure of respect. “The Civil War ...