The War of 1812 bibliography is a selective, annotated bibliography using APA style citations of the many books related to the War of 1812. There are thousands of books and articles written about this topic. Only the most useful are presented.

Overviews

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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) 495 pp, popular history Latimer, Jon, 1812: War with America (Harvard, 2007). A scholarly British perspective Mahon, John K. War of 1812 (University of Florida Press 1972). Overall military history. Malcomson, Robert. Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812 (Landham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006). , 699 pp Misiak, Zig, "War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations", 2012, website Smith, Gene Allen. The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Stagg, J.C.A. The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent (Cambridge Essential Histories, 2012) Suthren, Victor. The War of 1812 (1999). Sweeny, Alastair. Fire Along the Frontier: Great Battles of the War of 1812 (Dundurn, 2012). ; Resource Site; popular history by Canadian journalist Taylor, Alan. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies (2010) by Pulitzer Prize winner Tucker, Spencer C., ed. The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (3 vol: ABC-CLIO, 2012), 1034 pp Zuehlke, Mark. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace. (2007) by Canadian military historian

Historiography

Journal Journal of the War of 1812 complete text

Causes and diplomacy Brown, Roger H. The Republic in Peril: 1812 (1964), 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, (Doubleday, 1960)

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).

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 (1964) excerpt; online review Pratt, Julius W. Expansionists of 1812. (1925)

Rutland, Robert A. The Presidency of James Madison (1990) Smelser, Marshall. The Democratic Republic 1801–1815 (1968). 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. (1983).

Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations (1963), 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. (1940) Engelman, Fred L. The Peace of Christmas Eve (1962), popular account Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (1990) pp. 281–98. Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823. (1964), the standard scholarly history Remini, Robert Vincent, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1991) pp. 94–122

Social and cultural studies Eustace, Nicole. 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (University of Pennsylvania Press; 2012) 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 (Robin Brass Studio 2012).

Smith, Gene Allen. The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Military operations Center for Military History. U.S. Army Campaigns of the War of 1812: Online free Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater 1813. (2013) Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater 1814. (2014) Blackmon, Richard D. The Creek War 1813–1814; 43 pp Maass, John R. Defending A New Nation 1783–1811 (2013) 59 pp Neimeyer, Charles P. The Chesapeake Campaign, 1813–1814 (2014) Rauch, Steven J. The Campaign of 1812 (2013); 58 pp Stoltz III, Joseph F. The Gulf Theater, 1813–1815

Elting, John R. Amateurs, To Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812. 1991. (hardcover); (1995 Da Capo Press paperback). 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 (1997)

Canada-US border

Ellis, James H. A Ruinous and Unhappy War: New England and the War of 1812 (New York: Algora Publishing, 2009) 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 (1983) Macmillan of Canada. Canadian perspective

Smith, Joshua M. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820" (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006)

Young, Bennett H. The Battle of the Thames (Louisville, 1903). online from Google Zaslow. M. ed. The Defended Border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812 (1964) scholarly essays

Gulf and New Orleans

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. 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 (1926)

Soldiers, sailors and generals

Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time (1990) Crawford, Michael J., "U.S. Navy Petty Officers in the Era of the War of 1812," Journal of Military History, 76 (Oct. 2012), 1035–1051. Cress, Lawrence. 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

Grodzinski, John R. Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812(University of Oklahoma Press; 2013) 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 (1998) Lamb, W. K. The hero of Upper Canada (Toronto, 1962), on Isaac Brock Url McCavitt, John, and Christopher T. George. The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812. (2016). see online review Meyer, Leland Winfield. The Life and Times of Colonel Richard M. Johnson (1932) Olinger, Mark A., "Organizing for War in Canada, 1812–1814: The U.S. Army Experience," Ontario History 104 (Spring 2012), 21–44.

Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821 (1977)

Skeen, C. Edward. John Armstrong, Jr., 1758–1843 (1981) 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

Stagg, J. C. A., "United States Army Officers in the War of 1812: A Statistical and Behavioral Portrait," Journal of Military History, 76 (Oct. 2012), 1001–34. Stagg, J.C.A. "Enlisted men in the United States Army 1812–1815," William and Mary Quarterly 43 (1986) in JSTOR 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 (2000) in JSTOR Url Turner, Wesley B. British Generals in the War of 1812 (2nd ed. 2011) 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. (London, 1847), Indexed eLibrary of War of 1812 Resources 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 (Boydell Press, 2011) Beirne, Francis F. The War of 1812. New York: Dutton, 1949. 410 pp. (Reprinted 1965 by Shoestring). Berube, Claude G. and Rodgaard, John R., A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution. (2005) 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. Budiansky, Stephen. Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812–1815 (New York: Vintage, 2012) 448 pp; 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 (2012) excerpt and text search 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 (1924). Daughan, George C. 1812: The Navy's War (Basic Books; 2011) 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 (Spring 1990): 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 (Faber and Faber, 2012) Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper, 1868. 1084 pp. Mahan, Alfred T. * [https://archive.org/details/seapowerwar181201mahauoft Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812 (2 vols.) (1905) (Boston: Little Brown) American Library Association. (Reprinted 1968 by Greenwood; 1970 by Haskell). Mahon, John K. The War of 1812. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1972.