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

 * 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 (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 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, 699 pp
 * 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), 1034 pp
 * Zuehlke, Mark. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace. (2007) by Canadian military historian
 * 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), 1034 pp
 * Zuehlke, Mark. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace. (2007) by Canadian military historian

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). ISBN 0-498-04087-9
 * 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
 * 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
 * Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations (1963), selections from historians and primary sources
 * Taylor, George Rogers, ed. The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations (1963), selections from historians and primary sources
 * 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) ISBN 978-0160920844
 * Barbuto, Richard V. The Canadian Theater 1814. (2014) ISBN 978-0160923845
 * Blackmon, Richard D. The Creek War 1813–1814; 43 pp ISBN 978-0160925429
 * Maass, John R. Defending A New Nation 1783–1811 (2013) 59 pp
 * Neimeyer, Charles P. The Chesapeake Campaign, 1813–1814 (2014) ISBN 978-0160925351
 * Rauch, Steven J. The Campaign of 1812 (2013); 58 pp ISBN 978-0160920929
 * 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)
 * 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. ISBN 0-7715-9859-9 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
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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)

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
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 * 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
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 * 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
 * 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
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 * 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

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
 * , argues the Prophet was more important than Tecumseh
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812–1815 (1981)
 * 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
 * Sugden, John. Tecumseh: A Life. New York: Holt, 1997. ISBN 0-8050-4138-9, the standard scholarly biography

Canada

 * 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.
 * Horsman, Reginald. "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)

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