July 17 marks the bicentennial of a key date in the War of 1812, when the British captured Fort Mackinac at the onset of war. WKAR’s Scott Pohl speaks with Phil Porter about the historic date. Phil ...

It was a week of remembrance and enlightenment at the Editorial Department History Desk. On Friday, the Desk paused to remember the brave young Americans who at dawn 70 years earlier stormed onto the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Land hunger was also at work. Many Americans had their sights set on moving ...

This year marks the 200 th anniversary of the War of 1812, one of whose epic battles inspired the United States national anthem. Although war—which featured the U.S. invasion of Ontario and the ...

With lights dimmed to imbue the room as if it was candlelight, men in circa 1815 military attire, others in costume de rigueur, a casual observer of the Grand Military Victory Ball on Jan. 10 at the ...

MONTGOMERY -- The last battle of the War of 1812 wasn't the Battle of New Orleans, at which U.S. troops led by Andrew Jackson defeated British troops on Jan. 8, 1815. Instead, the last battle of the ...

In 1918, having watched in horror as his Progressive friends gleefully jumped onto Woodrow Wilson's war wagon, Randolph Bourne penned the immortal words: "War is the health of the state." As he ...

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air/ Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there You know the words above. You’ve sung them before a baseball game or at a swim meet.

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 ...

As the year 1813 began, the War of 1812 was still in its early stage. Britain was occupied with European matters and could not send any sizable land or naval forces to the conflict in North America.

There are uncanny similarities between partisan politics in the run-up to that crisis and the present strife over tax policy, budgetary priorities, and the national debt. With no consensus between the ...

ICYMI, Adam Chandler has posted a very wry look at the various screw-ups committed by America before and during the War of 1812. The whole thing was, as they say, avoidable: Congress finally declared ...