This episode originally aired June 18, 2012 Two hundred years ago, the relatively new Republic of the United States of America declared war upon the well-established British Emp ...
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum will host the final program in its Speaker Series on April 20. The event, "Why the West Went to ...
For the past three years the United States has been commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812. It was a war that American popular history tells us the United States won, but historians are ...
The projects would celebrate local history and grow Erie as a heritage tourism destination. Historian Douglas Brinkley calls Erie the "most crucial" location of the War of 1812 and the reaffirmation ...
Further confusion arrived June 26, 1812, when Hull received a letter from U.S. Secretary of War William Eustis. Although Eustis ordered Hull to reach Detroit as quickly as possible, writes Daughan, ...
Author and maritime historian Donald G. Shomette of Dunkirk received the Spirit of 1812 Medal from the National Society ...