Good reading for the bicentennial. The United States entered the war with a very small naval force made up of only twenty frigates, sloops, and brigs, seven of which were undergoing repairs. These ...

Betty, an 1812 pirate, and her husband Mike, a Confederate soldier, participate in reenactments that bring history to life. First, let's learn about Betty the Pirate. She's a special education teacher ...

Panelists discussed the War of 1812’s effect on Georgetown at an event Tuesday evening. In honor of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Georgetown University Library Associates and the Lecture ...

Amid the buccaneers and swashbucklers who descended on Harbor Drive in Duluth this week were War of 1812 re-enactors, and some of the redcoats exchanged barbs with people as they walked by. "They were ...

These days, it’s hard to think of a veteran who could have served from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. It’s happened, of course, but imagine a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War fighting ...

According to the American Legion's “Cemetery Record of Deceased Veterans,” a pivotal figure in American history rests in a ...

An odd remnant of the nation’s wartime past was revealed by chance in February in South Carolina, when a plowing farmer hit something on Johns Island near Charleston, officials say. The mysterious ...

As part of the ongoing, yearlong celebration of the War of 1812 bicentennial in the United States and Canada, Artsphere Studio and Gallery (447 Amherst St.) is opening two exhibitions meant to mark ...

Just outside of Alexandria Bay, a culvert with potential ties to the War of 1812 is set to be demolished and replaced, but a ...

During the Village of Lewiston’s monthly meeting this week, Village Historian Russell Piper gifted a portrait of Major ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - More than 170 years after his death, a hero in the War of 1812 was reinterred in the nation’s capital Saturday. Former Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Alexander Macomb, was ...

The Battle of Berezina in 1812 was a significant moment in Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's aborted campaign against Tsarist ...