War of 1812, Bibliography

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The War of 1812 (1812-1815) fought between the U.S. and Britain (and her colonies) resulted in a standoff. The scholarly literature is large on the part of the U.S. and Canada, but thin on the British side, where historians have focused far more on the defeat of Napoleon.

Historiography

• Egan, Clifford L. "The Origins of the War of 1812: Three Decades of Historical Writing," Military Affairs Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 72-75 in JSTOR
• Goodman, Warren H. "The Origins of the War of 1812: A Survey of Changing Interpretations," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 28 (September, 1941), 171-86. in JSTOR
• Hickey, Donald R. "The War of 1812: Still a Forgotten Conflict?" The Journal of Military History Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 741-769 in JSTOR
• Shulman, Mark Russell. "The Influence of History upon Sea Power: The Navalist Reinterpretation of the War of 1812," The Journal of Military History Vol. 56, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 183-206 in JSTOR
• Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations (1963), selections from historians and primary sources online edition

Overviews

• Adams, Henry. History of the United States during the Administrations of James Madison (1891; Library of America ed. 1986). classic American narrative; Garry Wills, Henry Adams and the Making of America (2005) is a close reading of Adams's history.
• Benn, Carl. The War of 1812 2002, British perspective online version
• Berton, Pierre; The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813 (1980); Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814 (1981). popular Canadian narrative
• Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War That Forged a Nation (2004), popular
• Heidler, Donald & Jeanne T. Heidler (eds) Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (2nd ed 2004) 636pp; most comprehensive guide; 500 entries by 70 scholars from several countries
• Heidler, David S. and Heidler, Jeanne T. The War of 1812. Greenwood, 2002. 217 pp.
• Hickey, Donald R. Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. (2006)
• Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. (1990), standard scholarly history
• Hitsman, J. M. The Incredible War of 1812 (1965), survey by Canadian scholar
• Langguth, A. J. Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (2006) 495pp, popular history
• Latimer, Jon. 1812: War with America (2007), 656pp; British perspective
• Malcomson, Robert. Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812. Scarecrow, 2006. 699 pp.

Causes and diplomacy

See also

• War of 1812, Causes
• Embargo of 1807

• Bukovansky, Mlada. "American Identity and Neutral Rights from Independence to the War of 1812," International Organization> Vol. 51, No. 2 (Spring, 1997), pp. 209-243 in JSTOR
• Burt, Alfred L. The United States, Great Britain, and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812. (1940), detailed history by Canadian scholar; online
• Egan, Clifford L. "The Origins of the War of 1812: Three Decades of Historical Writing," Military Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 72-75. short article on historiography in JSTOR
• Goodman, Warren H. "The Origins of the War of 1812: A Survey of Changing Interpretations," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 28 (September, 1941), 171-86. in JSTOR
• Hickey, Donald R. "American Trade Restrictions during the War of 1812," The Journal of American History, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Dec., 1981), pp. 517-538 online at JSTOR
• Hickey, Donald R. "The War of 1812" in Julian E. Zelizer, ed. The American Congress (2004), pp 93-111
• Horsman, Reginald. The Causes of the War of 1812. (1962). online version
• Kaplan, Lawrence S. "France and Madison's Decision for War 1812," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 50, No. 4. (Mar., 1964), pp. 652-671. in JSTOR
• Kaplan, Lawrence S. "France and the War of 1812," The Journal of American History Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jun., 1970), pp. 36-47 in JSTOR
• Perkins, Bradford. Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812. 1961, the major diplomatic history
• Pratt, Julius W. Expansionists of 1812. (1925)
• Pratt, Julius W. "Western War Aims in the War of 1812," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 12 (June, 1925), 36-50. in JSTOR
• Risjord, Norman K. "1812: Conservatives, War Hawks, and the Nation's Honor," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 18 (April, 1961), 196-210. in JSTOR
• Stagg, John C. A. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American republic, 1783-1830. (1983).
  • Stagg, J. C. A. "James Madison and the 'Malcontents': The Political Origins of the War of 1812," William and Mary Quarterly (Oct., 1976) in JSTOR
  • J.C.A. Stagg, "James Madison and the Coercion of Great Britain: Canada, the West Indies, and the War of 1812," in The William and Mary Quarterly(Jan., 1981) in JSTOR

U.S, politics and society

• Buel, Richard, Jr. America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 302 pp.
• Brown, Roger H. The Republic in Peril: 1812 (1964), stresses intense hostility between partisans online edition
• Brown, Roger H. "Who Bungled the War of 1812?" Reviews in American History, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 183-187 in Jstor
• Cress, Lawrence Delbert. "'Cool and Serious Reflection': Federalist Attitudes toward War in 1812," Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer, 1987), pp. 123-145 in JSTOR
• Lacroix, Alison L. "A Singular and Awkward War: the Transatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention." American Nineteenth Century History 2005 6(1): 3-32. Issn: 1466-4658 Fulltext: in Ingenta and Ebsco. A review of newspapers and pamphlets produced in and around Boston.
• Marshall Smelser. The Democratic Republic 1801-1815 (1968). general survey of American politics and diplomacy
• Rutland, Robert A. The Presidency of James Madison (1990)

Military Operations

• Cassell, Frank A. "Baltimore in 1813: A Study of Urban Defense in the War of 1812," Military Affairs Vol. 33, No. 3 (Dec., 1969), pp. 349-361 in JSTOR
• Elting, John R. Amateurs, To Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812. 1991.
• Hickey, Donald. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. 1989.
• Kimball, Jeffrey. "The Battle of Chippawa: Infantry Tactics in the War of 1812," Military Affairs Vol. 31, No. 4 (Winter, 1967), pp. 169-186 in JSTOR
• Quimby, Robert S., The US Army in the War of 1812: an operational and command study (1997) online version

Canada-US border

• Clark. Thomas D. "Kentucky In The Northwest Campaign" In Philip P. Mason, ed. After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812 (Michigan State UP: 1963) pp 78-98 online version
• Graves, Donald E. The Battle of Lundy's Lane: On the Niagara in 1814. Nautical & Aviation Publ., 1993. 342 pp.
• Malcomson, Robert. A Very Brilliant Affair: The Battle of Queenston Heights, 1812. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2003. 328 pp.
• Stanley, George F.G. The War of 1812: Land Operations (1983) Canadian perspective
• Young, Bennett H. The Battle of the Thames (Louisville, 1903).
• Zaslow. M. ED. The Defended Border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812 (1964) scholarly essays

Gulf and New Orleans

• Buchanan, John. Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters. Wiley, 2001. 434 pp.
• Cusick, James G. The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. U. Press of Florida, 2003. 370 pp.
• Millett, Nathaniel. "Britain's 1814 Occupation of Pensacola and America's Response: an Episode of the War of 1812 in the Southeastern Borderlands." Florida Historical Quarterly 2005 84(2): 229-255. Issn: 0015-4113
• Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812-1815 (1981)
• Pickles, Tim New Orleans 1815; Osprey Campaign Series, #28. Osprey Publishing, 1993.
• Remini, Robert V. The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory. 1999.
• Dunbar Rowland; Andrew Jackson's Campaign against the British, or, the Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812, concerning the Military Operations of the Americans, Creek Indians, British, and Spanish, 1813-1815 (1926), online version

Soldiers and Generals

• Burroughs, Peter. "Prevost, Sir George," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online online version
• Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time (1990)
• Bond Jr., Beverley W. "William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 13, No. 4 (Mar., 1927), pp. 499-516 in JSTOR
• Cress, Lawrence Delbert. Citizens in arms: The army and the militia in American society to the War of 1812 (1982)
• Elliott, Charles Winslow. Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. 1937. online version
• Fabel, Robin F. A. "Self-Help in Dartmoor: Black and White Prisoners in the War of 1812," Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 165-190 in JSTOR
• Hitsman, J. M. “Sir George Prevost’s conduct of the Canadian War of 1812,” Canadian Historical Association Report, 1962: 34–43.
• Johnson, Timothy D. . Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory (1998)
• Lamb, W. Kaye. “Sir Isaac Brock: The Hero of Queenston Heights,” in Philip P. Mason, ed. After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812 (Michigan State UP: 1963) pp 17-27 online edition
• Lamb, W. Kaye. The hero of Upper Canada (Toronto, 1962), Brock
• Meyer, Leland Winfield. The Life and Times of Colonel Richard M. Johnson (1932)
• Patterson, Benton Rain. The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans. New York U. Press, 2005. 288 pp.
• Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 (1977), the standard scholarly biography
• Skeen, C. Edward. John Armstrong, Jr., 1758-1843 (1981)
• Skeen, C. Edward. 'The Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812 (1999), a sads story of incompetence and failure to prepare, train, equip or lead
• Skelton, William. 'High army leadership in the era of the War of 1812: the making and remaking of the officer corps,' William and Mary Quarterly 51 (1994) in JSTOR
• Stacey, C.P. "Brock, Sir Isaac," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online online version
• Stagg, J., 'Enlisted men in the United States Army 1812-1815,' William and Mary Quarterly 43 (1986) in JSTOR
• Stagg, J., "Soldiers in peace and war: comparative perspectives on the recruitment of the United States Army, 1802–1815," William and Mary Quarterly 57 (2000) in JSTOR
• Tupper, F. B. The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B., 2nd ed. (London, 1847),
• Turner, W. British generals in the War of 1812: high command in the Canadas (1999)

Naval

• Berube, Claude G. and Rodgaard, John R., A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution. (2005)
• Cruikshank, E. A. "The Contest for the Command of Lake Ontario in 1814," Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, XXI (1924).
• Drolet, Marc. "The North American Squadron of the Royal Navy, 1807-1815." PhD dissertation McGill U. 2003. 446 pp. DAI 2004 65(1): 265-A. DANQ88452 Fulltext: at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

"A boxing match, or another bloody nose for John Bull" American carool by W. Charles celebrates the naval victory of the frigate "Enterprise" over the British ship "Boxer" in 1813. King George III (left), his nose bleeding and eye blackened, pleads, "Stop...Brother Jonathan, or I shall fall with the loss of blood -- I thought to have been too heavy for you -- But I must acknowledge your superior skill -- Two blows to my one! -- And so well directed too! Mercy, mercy on me, how does this happen!!!" President Madison taunts, "Ha-Ah Johnny! you thought yourself a "Boxer" did you! -- I'll let you know we are an "Enterprize"ing Nation. and ready to meet you with equal force any day." In the background, on the ocean, two ships are engaged in battle."

• Dudley, Wade G. Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. Naval Institute Press, 2003. 229 pp.
• Gough, Barry.Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath (2002), British perspective
• Kastor, Peter J. "Toward 'the Maritime War Only': The Question of Naval Mobilization, 1811- 1812," The Journal of Military History Vol. 61, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), pp. 455-480 in JSTOR
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The influence of sea power upon the War of 1812 2 vols (1905) online edition
• Padfield, Peter. Maritime Power and Struggle For Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851(2005) ch 13-14, British perspective
• Roosevelt, Theodore. eText at Project Gutenberg. The Naval War of 1812 (1882).
• Skaggs, David Curtis. Thomas Mcdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy. Naval Institute Press, 2003. 257 pp.
• Skaggs, David Curtis. A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 (1997)
• Skaggs, David Curtis, and William Jeffrey Welsh, eds. War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Kent State University Press. 1991. online version
• Stacey, C. P. "Naval Power On The Lakes, 1812-1814." In Philip P. Mason, ed. After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812 (Michigan State UP: 1963) pp 49-59 online version
• Stacey, C. P. "The Ships of the British Squadron on Lake Ontario, 1812-14," Canadian Historical Review, XXXIV (December, 1953).

Indians

• Allen, Robert S. "His Majesty's Indian Allies: Native Peoples, the British Crown, and the War of 1812" in The Michigan Historical Review, 14:2 (Fall 1988), pp 1-24.
• Benn, Carl. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
• Calloway, C. Crown and Calumet: British-Indian relations, 1783-1815 (1987)
• E. A. Cruikshank, “The ‘Chesapeake’ crisis as it affected Upper Canada,” Ontario History, 24 (1927): 281–322;
• E. A. Cruikshank, “The employment of Indians in the War of 1812,” American Historical Association, Annual report 1895: 319–35
• Edmunds, R. David. "Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and American History: a Reassessment." Western Historical Quarterly 1983 14(3): 261-276. Issn: 0043-3810 Fulltext: online in Jstor
• Herbert C. W. Goltz, "Tecumseh" Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online online version
• Reginald Horsman “The Role Of The Indian In The War,” In Philip P. Mason, ed. After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812 (Michigan State UP: 1963) pp 60-77 online version
• Reginald Horsman, "British Indian Policy in the Northwest, 1807-1812," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XLV ( June, 1958), 51-66. online in JSTOR
• Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812-1815 (1981)
• George F. G. Stanley. "The Indians in the War of 1812," Canadian Historical Review, XXXI (June, 1950)
• Sugden, John. Tecumseh: A Life. 1997.

Canada

• Berton, Pierre. The Invasion of Canada. Toronto: 1980; Flames Across the Border. 1981. Popular military history from Canadian perspective
• Carter-Edwards, Dennis. "The War of 1812 Along the Detroit Frontier: A Canadian Perspective", in The Michigan Historical Review, 13:2 (Fall 1987), pp. 25-50.
• Carter-Edwards, Dennis. "On to Canada: Manifest Destiny and United States Strategy in the War of 1812" in The Michigan Historical Review, 13:2 (Fall 1987), pp. 1-24.
• Collins, G. Guidebook to the historic sites of the War of 1812 (1998)
• Mills, Sean. "French Canadians and the Beginning of the War of 1812: Revisiting the Lachine Riot." Histoire Sociale 2005 38(75): 37-57. Issn: 0018-2257 Abstract: It is not true that French Canadians eagerly supported the British and defended Lower Canada from American invasion during the War of 1812. In reality, in the first year of the war, riots and mutinies took place throughout the colony. The most serious of these disturbances was a two-day riot at Lachine, Quebec. The authorities ended the disturbance by firing into the crowd. One man was killed; another was seriously wounded. Fifteen rioters were charged, brought to trial, and convicted. Apparently, French Canadians did not see a possible American invasion as a threat to their communities, but they did feel threatened by military officials arresting conscripts.

• Ouellet, Fernand. Lower Canada 1791-1840: Social Change and Nationalism (1980) ch 4, pp 95-115
• Smith, Joshua M. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820" (U Press of Florida: 2006)
• Stanley, George F. G. "The Contribution Of The Canadian Militia During The War," in Philip P. Mason, ed. After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812 (Michigan State UP: 1963) pp 28-48 online version
• Stagg, J., 'Between Black Rock and a hard place: Peter B. Porter's plan for an American invasion of Canada in 1812,' Journal of the Early Republic 19 (1999) in JSTOR
• Wood, William. The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812 (1915) online edition, popular history
• Zaslow, Morris (ed), The Defended Border. (1964).

Treaty of Ghent and Aftermath

• A. L. Burt. The United States, Great Britain and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812. (1940) online edition
• Engelman, Fred L. The Peace of Christmas Eve (1962), popular account; online excerpt from American Heritage Magazine (Dec 1960) v 12#1
• Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (1990) pp 281-98.
• Jones, Wilbur Devereux. "A British View of the War of 1812 and the Peace Negotiations," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 45, No. 3 (Dec., 1958), pp. 481-487 in JSTOR* Perkins, Bradford. Castelereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823. (1964), the standard scholarly history
• Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1991) pp 94-122
• Stacey, C. P. "The Myth of the Unguarded Frontier, 1815-1871," American Historical Review, 56:1 October, 1950). 1-18online at JSTOR

Primary sources

• Aitchison, Robert. A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827. Historical New Orleans Collection, 2004. 160 pp.
• Crawford, Michael J., ed. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Vol. 3: Chesapeake Bay, Northern Lakes, and Pacific Ocean. Washington: Naval History Center, 2002. 874 pp.
• Cruikshank, Ernest A. ed. Documents relating to the invasion of Canada and the surrender of Detroit, 1812 (1912) reprinted 1971
• Cruikshank, Ernest A. ed. The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in the Year 1812 (Welland: Lundy's Lane Historical Society)
• Dudley, William (ed.) The Naval War of 1812: a Documentary History , 4 vols (1985-)
• Gellner, J. (ed), Recollections of the War of 1812: Three Eyewitnesses'Accounts (1964)
• Graves, D. (ed), Merry hearts make light days: the War of 1812 journal of Lieutenant John Le Couteur, 104th Foot (1993)
• Graves, D. (ed), Soldiers of 1814: American Enlisted Men's Memoirs of the Niagara Campaign (1996)
• Jackson, Andrew. The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 3, 1814–1815 (1991) 648 pp.
• Klinck, C. & Talman, J. (eds), The Journal of Major John Norton, 1816 (1970)
• Latour, Arsènè Lacarrière. Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas. (1816). U. Press of Florida, 1999. 358 pp.
• Madison, James. The Papers of James Madison; Presidential Series. Vol. 5: 10 July 1812-7 February 1813. J. C. A. Stagg et al., ed. U. of Virginia Press, 2004. 718 pp.
• Wood, W. (ed), Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, 4 vols (1920-28)

External sources

• President Madison's 1812 War Message, with lesson plans and numerous primary documents from US and Britain regarding the causes of the war
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography, long scholarly articles on all the major figures]