Bibliography of the War of 1812

Overviews

• * is a close reading of Adams's history.
• short overview
• by English military historian
• , popular
• most comprehensive guide; 500 entries by 70 scholars from several countries
• standard scholarly history
• Hitsman, J. M. The Incredible War of 1812, survey by Canadian scholar
• Langguth, A. J. Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence 495pp, popular history
• Latimer, Jon, 1812: War with America. A scholarly British perspective
• Mahon, John K. War of 1812. Overall military history.
• Malcomson, Robert. Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812., 699pp
• Misiak, Zig, "War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations", 2012,
• Smith, Gene Allen. The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812.
• Stagg, J.C.A. The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent
• Suthren, Victor. The War of 1812.
• Sweeny, Alastair. . ; ; popular history by Canadian journalist
• Taylor, Alan. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Pulitzer Prize winner
• Tucker, Spencer C., ed. The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 1034pp
• Zuehlke, Mark. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace. by Canadian military historian

  Historiography

• Journal

• Causes and diplomacy

• Brown, Roger H. The Republic in Peril: 1812, on American politics
• 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.
• Carr, Albert Z., The Coming of War: An Account of the Remarkable Events Leading to the War of 1812,
• Hickey, Donald R. "The War of 1812" in Julian E. Zelizer, ed. The American Congress, pp 93–111
• Horsman, Reginald. The Causes of the War of 1812..
• Perkins, Bradford. Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812. 1961.
• Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812·1823 ;
• Pratt, Julius W. Expansionists of 1812.
• Rutland, Robert A. The Presidency of James Madison
• Smelser, Marshall. The Democratic Republic 1801-1815. general survey of American politics and diplomacy
• Stagg, John C. A. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American republic, 1783-1830..
• Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations, selections from historians and primary sources

• Treaty of Ghent and aftermath

• Burt, A. L. The United States, Great Britain and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812.
• Engelman, Fred L. The Peace of Christmas Eve, popular account
• Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict pp 281–98.
• Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823., the standard scholarly history
• Remini, Robert Vincent, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union pp 94–122

• Social and cultural studies

• Eustace, Nicole. 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism 315 pages; examines speeches, tavern songs, political cartoons, etc. in a cultural history of the war and its appeal to the American imagination.
• Graves, Dianne. In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812.
• Smith, Gene Allen. The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812.

  Military operations

• Center for Military History. U.S. Army Campaigns of the War of 1812:
• * Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater 1813.
• * Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater 1814.
• * Blackmon, Richard D. The Creek War 1813-1814; 43pp
• * Maass, John R. Defending A New Nation 1783-1811 59pp
• * Neimeyer, Charles P. The Chesapeake Campaign, 1813–1814
• * Rauch, Steven J. The Campaign of 1812 ; 58pp
• * Stoltz III, Joseph F. The Gulf Theater, 1813-1815
• 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.
• Latimer, Jon, 1812: War with America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2007.
• Quimby, Robert S., The US Army in the War of 1812: an operational and command study

  Canada-US border

• Ellis, James H. A Ruinous and Unhappy War: New England and the War of 1812
• Everest, Allan S. The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1981.
• Herkalo, Kieth A. The Battles at Plattsburgh: September 11, 1814, The History Press, Charleston, 2012
• Stanley, George F.G. The War of 1812: Land Operations Macmillan of Canada. Canadian perspective
• Smith, Joshua M. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820"
• Young, Bennett H. The Battle of the Thames.
• Zaslow. M. ed. The Defended Border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812'' scholarly essays

  Gulf and New Orleans

• Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812-1815
• 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. Viking Penguin, 1999.
• Rowland, Mrs. Dunbar; 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,

  Soldiers, sailors and generals

• Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time
• Crawford, Michael J., "U.S. Navy Petty Officers in the Era of the War of 1812," Journal of Military History, 76, 1035–51.
• Cress, Lawrence. Citizens in arms: The army and the militia in American society to the War of 1812
• Elliott, Charles Winslow. Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. 1937.
• Grodzinski, John R. Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812 360 pages;
• 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
• Lamb, W. K. The hero of Upper Canada, on Isaac Brock
• Meyer, Leland Winfield. The Life and Times of Colonel Richard M. Johnson
• Olinger, Mark A., "Organizing for War in Canada, 1812–1814: The U.S. Army Experience," Ontario History 104, 21–44.
• Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821
• Skeen, C. Edward. John Armstrong, Jr., 1758-1843
• 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
• Stagg, J. C. A., "United States Army Officers in the War of 1812: A Statistical and Behavioral Portrait," Journal of Military History, 76, 1001–34.
• Stagg, J.C.A. "Enlisted men in the United States Army 1812-1815," William and Mary Quarterly 43
• Stagg, J.C.A. "Soldiers in peace and war: comparative perspectives on the recruitment of the United States Army, 1802–1815," William and Mary Quarterly 57
• Turner, Wesley B. British Generals in the War of 1812 on Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond

• Primary sources

• Tupper, F. B. The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B., 2nd ed.,
• at Fire Along the Frontier Resource Site

  Naval

Secondary sources

• Arthur, Brian How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815
• Beirne, Francis F. The War of 1812. New York: Dutton, 1949. 410 pp..
• Berube, Claude G. and Rodgaard, John R., A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution.
• Bird, Harrison. Navies in the Mountains: The Battles on the Waters of Lake Champlain and Lake George, 1609-1814. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962.
• Brown, Wilburt S. The Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815: A Critical Review of Strategy and Tactics at New Orleans. University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1969.
• Budiansky, Stephen. Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 448pp;
• Byron, Gilbert. The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1964.
• Collins, Mark, et al. The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy
• Cranwell, John P., and William B. Crane. Men of Marque: A History of Private Armed Vessels Out of Baltimore During the War of 1812. New York: Norton, 1940.
• Cruikshank, E.A. "The Contest for the Command of Lake Ontario in 1814," Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, XXI.
• Daughan, George C. 1812: The Navy's War 491 pages; U.S. Navy
• Dudley, Wade G. Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815 Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
• Dudley, William S. "Commodore Isaac Chauncey and U.S. Joint Operations on Lake Ontario, 1813-14." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 139-155. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Dudley, William S. "Naval Historians and the War of 1812." Naval History 4 : 52-57; historiography
• Eckert, Edward K. The Navy Department in the War of 1812. Univ. of Florida Social Sciences Monograph, No. 48. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1973.
• Eller, Ernest M., William J. Morgan, and Richard M. Basoco. Sea Power and the Battle of New Orleans. New Orleans: Landmark Society, 1965.
• Everest, Allan S. The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1981.
• Forester, Cecil S. The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956.
• Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced by Baltimore During the War of 1812. The American Maritime Library, Vol. 8. Middletown, Conn.: Published for Mystic Seaport by Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1977.
• Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989.
• Hitsman, J. Mackay. The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965.
• Lambert, Andrew The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
• Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper, 1868. 1084 pp.
• Mahan, Alfred T. * at Project Gutenberg.
• Shomette, Donald G. Flotilla: Battle for the Patuxent. Solomons, Md.: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1981.
• Skaggs, David Curtis. "Joint Operations During the Detroit- Lake Erie Campaign, 1813." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 121-138. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Stacey, C.P. "The Ships of the British Squadron on Lake Ontario, 1812-14," Canadian Historical Review, XXXIV.
• Toll, Ian, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy, New York: W. W. Norton

  Primary sources

• Dudley, William S., and Michael J. Crawford, eds. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History Washington: Naval Historical Center: GPO, 1985-. Vol. 1, 1812; Vol. 2, 1813; Vol. 3, 1814-1815. Contains contemporary records from letters, journals, ships' logs, and newspapers from American as well as foreign archives and libraries. The volumes are well illustrated and offer useful bibliographies and extensive indexes.
• Jones, Noah. Journals of Two Cruises Aboard the American Privateer Yankee, by a Wanderer. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
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• Porter, David. Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, by Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814. New York: Wiley & Halstead, 1815. 2 vols..

  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, pp 1–24.
• Antal, Sandy. A Wampum Denied: Procter's War of 1812 examines Henry Procter & the Canadian/British/Native perspectives
• 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
• Cruikshank, E. A. "The 'Chesapeake' crisis as it affected Upper Canada," Ontario History, 24 : 281–322;
• Cruikshank, E. A. "The employment of Indians in the War of 1812," American Historical Association, Annual report 1895: 319–35
• , argues the Prophet was more important than Tecumseh
• Misiak, Zig, "War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations",2012,
• Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812-1815
• Stanley, George F. G. "The Indians in the War of 1812," Canadian Historical Review, 31
• Sugden, John. Tecumseh: A Life. New York: Holt, 1997., the standard scholarly biography

  Canada

• Barbuto, Richard V. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 2013.
• Berton, Pierre. The Invasion of Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980..; Flames Across the Border. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 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, pp. 25–50.
• Horsman, Reginald. "On to Canada: Manifest Destiny and United States Strategy in the War of 1812" in The Michigan Historical Review, 13:2, pp. 1–24.
• Collins, G. Guidebook to the historic sites of the War of 1812
• 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 in JSTOR

• Primary sources

• Cruikshank, Ernest A., ed. Documents relating to the invasion of Canada and the surrender of Detroit, 1812 reprinted 1971
• Dudley, W., The Naval War of 1812: a Documentary History, 4 vols
• Gellner, J., Recollections of the War of 1812: Three Eyewitnesses' Accounts
• Graves, D., Merry hearts make light days: the War of 1812 journal of Lieutenant John Le Couteur, 104th Foot
• Graves, D., Soldiers of 1814: American Enlisted Men's Memoirs of the Niagara Campaign
• Hickey, Donald R., ed. The War of 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence. xxx, 892 pp.
• Klinck, C. & Talman, J., The Journal of Major John Norton, 1816
• Wood, W., Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, 4 vols

  External sources

• , with lesson plans and numerous primary documents from US and Britain regarding the causes of the war
• , long scholarly articles on all the major figures
• compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
• : Over 80 books and manuscripts focus on this important region, compiled by the Buffalo History Museum, which has an extensive War of 1812 collection