deepened the divide between agricultural slave states and the urbanizing, industrializing North. The ultimate result was “that other war,” which has so long shadowed 1812. It looms even at ...

Although they acknowledge there were two theaters of war—at sea and on land—it is the successful repulse of the ten U.S. incursions between 1812 and 1814 that have received the most attention.

The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain ultimately ended in stalemate, but in the aftermath of one U.S. victory, a poem was penned that would become the new nation’s national ...

For decades, the Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry has crossed the border to work with American re-enactors to ...

The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the ...