Painting of the marine battle in the War of 1812 featuring the USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, and the British ship, HMS Guerrière, with its masts broken. Artist Thomas Chambers, 1845.

During the War of 1812, on Aug. 24, 1814, British troops set fire to the White House. Before they did, Paul Jennings, who was born into slavery at Montpelier, James Madison's Virginia mansion ...

The National Portrait Gallery’s “1812: A Nation Emerges” is an interesting, engaging exhibition that skirts more painful questions of memory and history.

Until the Vietnam War, no foreign conflict would be as unpopular and divisive in the U.S. as the War of 1812. The Future of a Continent Those who supported the war did so with a fair amount of hubris.

Discover the hidden history of the War of 1812 at the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe, Michigan—home to America’s only National Park unit dedicated to telling the story of Native nations and their ...

A centuries-old cannon that experts said was likely on board a British ship during a maritime battle off the Maine coast in the War of 1812 has been movedcqto a maritime museum from storage, where ...

History of the War of 1812. Share full article. Oct. 31, 1903. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 31, 1903, Section T, Page 18 Buy Reprints.

But ignorance of the War of 1812 lightens his role as Lacroix Company leader. “I made up some of the orders today, and they weren’t carried out well,” he concedes at the end of the wintry drill.

If the 1812-14 war had gone otherwise, it's easy to imagine that a more southerly line would have been drawn. Benjamin Frankin and the other U.S. negotiators in 1783 weren't quite sure where Lake ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the military recognition most soldiers in his situation were granted has been declared a veteran of ...