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 ...

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 ...

A fortunate chain of events and the generosity of a monument maker will bring Memorial Day recognition to the earliest known soldier buried at Hillside Cemetery in Antioch. On Monday, the restored ...

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 ...

The museum will expand the Frank Lloyd Wright office exhibit. Also new will be an Oliver Hazard Perry exhibit with personal ...

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 ...

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:35:26 GMT — An upstate tourism organization has published a travel guide focusing on the War of 1812's historic sites in New York and Pennsylvania. "Waterways of War: The War of ...

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 ...

The Castine Historical Society says it recently found out it had two cannonballs in the museum dating back to the War of 1812 ...

The Gazette’s front-page headline, “War of 1812 still costly to Brookeville” [June 5] was extremely disappointing. The headline is inaccurate as well as misleading.The War of 1812 is not “costly, i.e.