Bibliography of the War of 1812

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

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 online version; Oxford, UK 2002 (ISBN 978-1-84176-466-5), short overview
Berton, Pierre; The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813 (1980). ISBN 0-7710-1244-6; Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814 (1981); reissued as Pierre Berton's War of 1812 (Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2011); popular Canadian narrative; 928pp
Bickham, Troy, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, The British Empire, and the War of 1812 (Oxford University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0195391787
Black, Jeremy. The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon (2009) by English military historian
Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War That Forged a Nation (2004), popular
Gilje, Paul A. Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
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
Hickey, Donald R. Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. (2006) ISBN 0-252-03179-2
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. ISBN 0-252-06059-8 (1990), standard scholarly history
Hickey, Donald R. 187 Things You Should Know about the War of 1812 (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2012), 170 pp.
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 (Harvard, 2007). A scholarly British perspective ISBN 0-674-02584-9
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). ISBN 0-8108-5499-6 699pp
Misiak, Zig, "War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations", 2012, ISBN 978-0-9811880-5-8 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) ISBN 0-521-72686-7
Suthren, Victor. The War of 1812 (1999). ISBN 0-7710-8317-3
Sweeny, Alastair. Fire Along the Frontier: Great Battles of the War of 1812 (Dundurn, 2012). ISBN 978-1-4597-0433-6; 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), 1034pp
Zuehlke, Mark. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace. (2007) by Canadian military historian

Historiography

Cleves, Rachel Hope, Nicole Eustace, and Paul Gilje. "Interchange: The War of 1812," Journal of American History (2012) 99#2 pp 520–555.
Goodman, Warren H. "The Origins of the War of 1812: A Survey of Changing Interpretations," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, (1941), 28#2 pp 171–86. in JSTOR
Grodzinski, John R. "Opening Shots from the Bicentenary of the War of 1812: Canadian Perspective on Recent Titles," The Journal of Military History (2012) 76#4 pp 1187–1201
Hatter, Lawrence B. A., “Party Like It’s 1812: The War at 200,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly (2012), 71#1 90–111
Hickey, Donald R (Sept. 2013). "1812: The Old History and the New". Reviews in American History 41 (3): 436–44. at Project MUSE.
Hickey, Donald R. "The War of 1812: Still a Forgotten Conflict?," The Journal of Military History, (2001), 65#3 pp. 741–769 in JSTOR
Jensen, Richard. "Military History on the Electronic Frontier: Wikipedia Fights the War of 1812," The Journal of Military History 76#4 (October 2012): 523-556; online version
Nivola, Pietro S. & Kastor, Peter J. (eds) What So Proudly We Hailed: Essays on the Contemporary Meanings of the War of 1812 (Brookings Institution Press, 2012)
Stacey, CP (1964). "The War of 1812 in Canadian History". In Zaslow; Morris; Turner, Wesley B. The Defended Border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812. Toronto.
Trautsch, Jasper M. "The Causes of the War of 1812: 200 Years of Debate," Journal of Military History (Jan 2013) 77#1 pp 273–293.

Journal

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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. (1940), detailed history by Canadian scholar; online
Carr, Albert Z., The Coming of War: An Account of the Remarkable Events Leading to the War of 1812, (Doubleday, 1960)
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" in Julian E. Zelizer, ed. The American Congress (2004), pp 93–111
Horsman, Reginald. The Causes of the War of 1812. (1962). ISBN 0-498-04087-9 online version
Horsman, Reginald. "Western War Aims, 1811-1812," Indiana Magazine of History (1957) 53#1 pp. 1–18 in JSTOR
Kaplan, Lawrence S. "France and Madison's Decision for War 1812," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 50, No. 4. (Mar., 1964), pp. 652–671. in JSTOR
Perkins, Bradford. Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812. 1961.
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
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).
- Stagg, J. C. A. "James Madison and the 'Malcontents': The Political Origins of the War of 1812," William and Mary Quarterly (Oct., 1976)
- 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
Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations (1963), selections from historians and primary sources
Updyke, Frank Arthur (1915). The diplomacy of the war of 1812. Johns Hopkins U.P. , full text online

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) online edition
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
Stacey, C. P. (1950). "The Myth of the Unguarded Frontier, 1815-1871". American Historical Review 56 (1): 1–18. doi:10.2307/1840618. JSTOR 1840618.

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) ISBN 9780160920844
- Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater 1814. (2014) ISBN 9780160923845
- Blackmon, Richard D. The Creek War 1813-1814; 43pp ISBN 9780160925429
- Maass, John R. Defending A New Nation 1783-1811 (2013) 59pp
- Neimeyer, Charles P. The Chesapeake Campaign, 1813–1814 (2014) ISBN 9780160925351
- Rauch, Steven J. The Campaign of 1812 (2013); 58pp ISBN 9780160920929
- Stoltz III, Joseph F. The Gulf Theater, 1813-1815
Elting, John R. Amateurs, To Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812. 1991. ISBN 0-945575-08-4 (hardcover); ISBN 0-306-80653-3 (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) 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
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. ISBN 0-7715-9859-9 Canadian perspective
Rauch, Steven J. “A Stain upon the Nation? A Review of the Detroit Campaign of 1812 in United States Military History,” Michigan Historical Review, 38 (Spring 2012), 129–153.
Skaggs, David Curtis, “Decisions at Sandwich: William Henry Harrison and the Pursuit to the Thames,” Michigan Historical Review 38 (Spring 2012), 106–28.
Smith, Joshua M. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820" (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006)
Whitfield, Carol. "The Battle of Queenston Heights," Canadian Historic Sites (1974), Issue 10, pp 9-59
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. ISBN 0-670-88551-7
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), online version

Soldiers, sailors 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)
Crawford, Michael J., “U.S. Navy Petty Officers in the Era of the War of 1812,” Journal of Military History, 76 (Oct. 2012), 1035–51.
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. online version
Greenwood, Adrian (2015). Victoria's Scottish Lion: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. UK: History Press. p. 496. ISBN 0-75095-685-2.
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
Lewis, Charles Lee (2004). The Romantic Decatur.
Ayer Publishing, 1937. p. 296. ISBN 0-8369-5898-5. Url
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)
Riley, Jonathon (2011). A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock. Midpoint Trade Books.
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
Stacey, C.P. "BROCK, Sir ISAAC," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online online version
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
Tucker, Spencer (2004). Stephen Decatur: a life most bold and daring.
Naval Institute Press, 2004 Annapolis, MD. p. 245. ISBN 1-55750-999-9. 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
Turner, Wesley B. (2011). The Astonishing General: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Brock. Dundurn Press.

Primary sources

Boklan, Kent D., "How I Broke an Encrypted Diary from the War of 1812", Cryptologia, West Point, New York : United States Military Academy, Volume 32, Issue 4, October 2008, pages 299 - 310. "We study encrypted entries in the diary of a doctor in the War of 1812. Upon decrypting the contents, we find comments of great interest to the early history of the State of Tennessee."
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) ISBN 1-84383-665-3
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.
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 (New York: Vintage, 2012) 448pp; ISBN 978-0-307-45495-9
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) ISBN 0-571-27319-X
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.
Maloney, Linda M. "The War of 1812: What Role for Sea Power?" In In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History, 1775-1984, 2d ed., edited by Kenneth J. Hagan, 46-62. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984.
McCranie, Kevin D. Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812 (Naval Institute Press, 2011) ISBN 1-59114-504-X
Muller, Charles G. The Darkest Day: 1814; The Washington- Baltimore Campaign. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.
Poolman, Kenneth. Guns Off Cape Ann: The Story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1962.
Pullen, Hugh F. The Shannon and the Chesapeake. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970.
Roosevelt, Theodore; The Naval War of 1812; G.P. Putnam's Sons; New York, New York; 1882; numerous reprints eText Version at Project Gutenberg.
Shomette, Donald G. Flotilla: Battle for the Patuxent. Solomons, Md.: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1981.
Paullin, Charles Edward (October 1918). The Battle of Lake Erie (a collection of documents, mainly those by Oliver Hazard Perry). Cleveland, Ohio: The Raufin Club. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
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.
Skaggs, David Curtis; Welsh, William Jeffrey, editors (1991). War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Kent State University Press. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
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).
Toll, Ian, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy, New York: W. W. Norton (2006)

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.
Paullin, Charles Edward (October 1918). The Battle of Lake Erie (a collection of documents, mainly those by Oliver Hazard Perry). Cleveland, Ohio: The Raufin Club. Retrieved August 18, 2011. .
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. (Reprinted 1970 by Gregg).

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.
Antal, Sandy. A Wampum Denied: Procter's War of 1812 (2nd ed. 2011) examines Henry Procter & the Canadian/British/Native perspectives
Benn, Carl. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8020-8145-2
Calloway, C. Crown and Calumet: British-Indian relations, 1783-1815 (1987)
Cruikshank, E. A. “The ‘Chesapeake’ crisis as it affected Upper Canada,” Ontario History, 24 (1927): 281–322;
Cruikshank, E. A. “The employment of Indians in the War of 1812,” American Historical Association, Annual report 1895: 319–35
Edmunds, R. David (1983). "Tecumseh, The Shawnee Prophet, and American History: A Reassessment". Western Historical Quarterly 14 (3): 261–276. doi:10.2307/969620. JSTOR 969620. , argues the Prophet was more important than Tecumseh
Goltz, Herbert C. W. "Tecumseh" Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online online version
Horsman, Reginald (1958). "British Indian Policy in the Northwest, 1807-1812". Mississippi Valley Historical Review 45 (1): 51–66. doi:10.2307/1886695. JSTOR 1886695.
Horsman, Reginald. “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
Misiak, Zig, "War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations",2012, ISBN 978-0-9811880-5-8
Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812-1815 (1981)
Rugeley, Terry. "Savage and Statesman: Changing Historical Interpretations of Tecumseh," Indiana Magazine of History (1989) 85#3 pp 289–311. in JSTOR
Stanley, George F. G. "The Indians in the War of 1812," Canadian Historical Review, 31 (June, 1950)
Sugden, John. Tecumseh: A Life. New York: Holt, 1997. ISBN 0-8050-4138-9, the standard scholarly biography

Canada

Further information: Bibliography of Canadian military history

Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater, 1813. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 2013.
Berton, Pierre. The Invasion of Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980. ISBN 0-316-09216-9.; Flames Across the Border. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981. ISBN 0-316-09217-7. 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)
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
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
Zaslow, Morris (ed.) (1964). The defended border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812. Toronto: MacMillan. OCLC 480289.

Primary sources

Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1854-1939) (editor) (1971). The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in the Year 1812. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 0-405-02838-5.
Cruikshank, Ernest A., ed. Documents relating to the invasion of Canada and the surrender of Detroit, 1812 (1912) reprinted 1971
Dudley, W., (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)
Hickey, Donald R., ed. The War of 1812: Writings from America’s Second War of Independence (New York: Library of America, 2013). xxx, 892 pp.
Klinck, C. & Talman, J. (eds), The Journal of Major John Norton, 1816 (1970)
Wood, W. (ed), Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, 4 vols (1920–28)

External sources

Six Nations along the Grand River Territory
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
The Naval History & Heritage Command's War of 1812 Website
Bibliography of the United States Army during the War of 1812 compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
War of 1812 in the Buffalo/Niagara Area: Over 80 books and manuscripts focus on this important region, compiled by the Buffalo History Museum, which has an extensive War of 1812 collection

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