Historian Douglas Brinkley is driving the initiative to create the museum in Erie. A separate plan to recreate early forts is ...

The War of 1812 is an often overlooked war in comparison to other conflicts in American history, but it was still an important one with numerous causes. The war, fought between the United States and ...

The vessel appears to be the "Swift," a British Royal Navy wooden sailing ship that sank off Sable Island in Canada ...

“The War of 1812” is an easy handle for students who struggle with dates. But the name is a misnomer that makes the conflict sound like a mere wisp of a war that began and ended the same year. In ...

The War of 1812 was the closing fight of the American Revolution and the first war that declared a brand new nation, setting ...

A shipwreck dating to the War of 1812 has been identified on Sable Island, a narrow crescent of sand roughly 300 kilometers ...

More than 200 years after his death in the War of 1812, Lt. Henry Hobart of Gardiner was honored Sunday with a stone placed next to his mother’s at St. Ann’s Burying Ground. A marker has been placed ...

The War of 1812 is today a vague mystery, sometimes confused with the “1812 Overture” played at July 4 fireworks shows, but actually a Russia battle repelling an invasion by Emperor Napoleon.

Several Cape Girardeau District men answered the call to serve in the militia during the War of 1812. The story of the last War of 1812 pensioner with a Cape Girardeau connection involves a prominent ...

In the early years of the 19th century, the town of Keene prospered. As expanded transportation routes enabled the community to connect with the world, its residents were able to find work in a ...