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Throughout his career, Andrew Jackson would inspire fear and hatred, but also devotion and love. Then, as now, Jackson did not inspire mildness.

In the first few years of the 19th century, the great powers of Europe raged against each other during the Napoleonic Wars. Great Britain, the nominal...

A short list of some of the notable works on the war and its political, social and cultural context recommended for students, scholars, educators and...

Brief summary article about New Orleans in the War of 1812

This American triumph, engineered by the OTHER Armistead brother, was easily overshadowed by disasters elsewhere in the summer of 1813. But it almost...

In the latter half of 1814, British men-of-war had blockaded American ports up and down the Eastern Seaboard, effectively leaving the U.S. Navy...

This article provides a brief history of the artillery used during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.

Like their brethren during the American Revolution, enslaved persons and people of color living along the Chesapeake, and in the Tidewater regions of...

Lance Hatton, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Superintendent, reflects on the Chalmette Battlefield, site of the War of 1812's...

The War of 1812 brought the United States onto the world's stage in a conflict that ranged throughout the American Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast...

If the American Revolution was the birth of the United States, the War of 1812 was its coming of age. Despite winning the Revolutionary War, the...

Naval combat in the Age of Sail, which lasted from the 16th to mid-19th century, may seem strange to the modern eye. Sailing ships were virtually...