War of 1812

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Benn, Carl. The War of 1812. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War that Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.

Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1997.

Hickey, Donald R. Don’t Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Langguth, A. J. Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Remini, Robert V. The Battle of New Orleans. New York: Viking, 1999.

Stagg, John C.A. Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783-1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.

The War of 1812 on PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/

A Guide to the War of 1812 on the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/1812/