Black, Jeremy.
Summary: Explores both the military and diplomatic events that focus on the actions of the British during the War of 1812, comparing it to other conflicts in Europe during this time frame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 BLABartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BARLambert, Nancy (Nancy R.)
Summary: Tells the story behind the original nineteenth-century national treasure that inspired the poem by Francis Scott Key and the American national anthem, while sharing insights into how the Smithsonian cares for the flag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Summary: Examines the events leading up to the War of 1812 and the major phases of the war, and describes the views of all parties--the Indians and the Canadians as well as the United States and Great Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BENLangguth, A. J.
Summary: In the second and final war of independence, Madison leads an unprepared nation into a struggle that will establish the United States as a major world power and stake its claim to the entire continent. Before the outcome is decided, the war will have engulfed land and sea, with a disastrous U.S. defeat at Detroit and epic naval campaigns on the Great Lakes. After the Americans sack Toronto, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 LANBorneman, Walter R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 BORSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Davis, William C.
Summary: From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic. It was a battle that could not be won. Outnumbered farmers, merchants, backwoodsmen, smugglers, slaves, and Choctaw Indians, many of them unarmed, were up against the cream of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 DAVBerton, Pierre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 BERKroll, Steven.
Summary: An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 784.7 KROJenkins, Mark
Summary: A visual history of the War of 1812 includes hundreds of photographs and illustrations, original and contemporary maps, historic documents, letters, ephemera, and artifacts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.52 JENJacobs, James Ripley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorn Books 1969
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 MASLossing, Benson John
Summary: "The Battle of Bull's Run, so disastrous to the National Arms, and yet so little profitable, as a military event, to the Confederates, was in its immediate effects a profound enigma to the people of the whole country. They could not understand it. The Confederates held the field, yet they did not seek profit from the panic and flight of their opponents, by a pursuit. The Nationals were beaten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. Co. 2001
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 LOSCall number: 973.7 LOS VOL 1
Hickey, Donald R
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 HICHoward, Hugh
Summary: In this powerful new work, drawing on countless primary sources, acclaimed historian Hugh Howard presents a gripping account of the War of 1812 as James and Dolley Madison experienced it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2012