Bibliography of the War of 1812

Naval

Secondary sources

• Arthur, Brian How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812–1815 (Boydell Press, 2011)
  ISBN 1-84383-665-3
• Beirne, Francis F. The War of 1812. New York: Dutton, 1949. 410 pp. (Reprinted 1965 by Shoestring).
• Berube, Claude G. and Rodgaard, John R., A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution. (2005)
• Bird, Harrison. Navies in the Mountains: The Battles on the Waters of Lake Champlain and Lake George, 1609–1814. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962.
• Budiansky, Stephen. Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812–1815 (New York: Vintage, 2012) 448 pp;
  ISBN 978-0-307-45495-9
• Byron, Gilbert. The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1964.
• Collins, Mark, et al. The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy (2012) excerpt and text search
• Cranwell, John P., and William B. Crane. Men of Marque: A History of Private Armed Vessels Out of Baltimore During the War of 1812. New York: Norton, 1940.
• Cruikshank, E.A. "The Contest for the Command of Lake Ontario in 1814," Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, XXI (1924).
• Daughan, George C. 1812: The Navy's War (Basic Books; 2011) 491 pages; U.S. Navy
• Dudley, Wade G. Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815 Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
• Dudley, William S. "Commodore Isaac Chauncey and U.S. Joint Operations on Lake Ontario, 1813-14." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 139-155. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Dudley, William S. "Naval Historians and the War of 1812." Naval History 4 (Spring 1990): 52-57; historiography
• Eckert, Edward K. The Navy Department in the War of 1812. Univ. of Florida Social Sciences Monograph, No. 48. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1973.
• Eller, Ernest M., William J. Morgan, and Richard M. Basoco. Sea Power and the Battle of New Orleans. New Orleans: Landmark Society, 1965.
• Everest, Allan S. The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1981.
• Forester, Cecil S. The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956.
• Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced by Baltimore During the War of 1812. The American Maritime Library, Vol. 8. Middletown, Conn.: Published for Mystic Seaport by Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1977.
• Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989.
• Hitsman, J. Mackay. The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965.
• Lambert, Andrew The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 (Faber and Faber, 2012)
  ISBN 0-571-27319-X
• Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper, 1868. 1084 pp.
• Little Brown) American Library Association
  . (Reprinted 1968 by Greenwood; 1970 by Haskell).
• Mahon, John K. The War of 1812. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1972.
• Maloney, Linda M. "The War of 1812: What Role for Sea Power?" In In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History, 1775-1984, 2d ed., edited by Kenneth J. Hagan, 46-62. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984.
• McCranie, Kevin D. Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812 (Naval Institute Press, 2011)
  ISBN 1-59114-504-X
• Muller, Charles G. The Darkest Day: 1814; The Washington- Baltimore Campaign. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.
• Poolman, Kenneth. Guns Off Cape Ann: The Story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1962.
• Pullen, Hugh F. The Shannon and the Chesapeake. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970.
• New York, New York; 1882; numerous reprints eText Version at Project Gutenberg
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• Shomette, Donald G. Flotilla: Battle for the Patuxent. Solomons, Md.: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1981.
• Paullin, Charles Edward (October 1918). The Battle of Lake Erie (a collection of documents, mainly those by Oliver Hazard Perry). Cleveland, Ohio: The Raufin Club. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
• Skaggs, David Curtis. "Joint Operations During the Detroit- Lake Erie Campaign, 1813." In New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighth Naval History Symposium, edited by William B. Cogar, 121-138. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Skaggs, David Curtis; Welsh, William Jeffrey, editors (1991). War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie.
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• Smith, Gene Allen (2008). "Preventing the "Eggs of Insurrection" from Hatching: The U.S. Navy and Control of the Mississippi River, 1806–1815" (PDF). Northern Mariner. issue Nos. 3-4, (July–October 2008). 18 (3–4). The Canadian Nautical Research Society: 79–91.
  S2CID 247349162
  . Retrieved 19 December 2021.
• Stacey, C.P. (2011) [1963]. "Naval Power On The Lakes, 1812–1814". In Philip P. Mason (ed.). After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812. Michigan State University Press. pp. 49–59.
  ISBN 978-1-60917-209-1
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• Stacey, C.P. "The Ships of the British Squadron on Lake Ontario, 1812-14," Canadian Historical Review, XXXIV (December, 1953).
• Toll, Ian, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy, New York: W. W. Norton (2006)

• Dudley, William S., and Michael J. Crawford, eds. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History Washington: Naval Historical Center: GPO, 1985-. Vol. 1, 1812; Vol. 2, 1813; Vol. 3, 1814–1815; Vol. 4, 1814–1815. Contains contemporary records from letters, journals, ships' logs, and newspapers from American as well as foreign archives and libraries. The volumes are well illustrated and offer useful bibliographies and extensive indexes.
• Jones, Noah. Journals of Two Cruises Aboard the American Privateer Yankee, by a Wanderer. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
• Paullin, Charles Edward (October 1918). The Battle of Lake Erie (a collection of documents, mainly those by Oliver Hazard Perry). Cleveland, Ohio: The Raufin Club. Retrieved August 18, 2011..
• Porter, David. Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, by Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814. New York: Wiley & Halstead, 1815. 2 vols. (Reprinted 1970 by Gregg).

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
• Edmunds, R. David (1983). "Tecumseh, The Shawnee Prophet, and American History: A Reassessment".
  JSTOR 969620
  ., argues the Prophet was more important than Tecumseh
• Goltz, Herbert C. W. (1983). "Tecumseh". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. V (1801–1820) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
• Horsman, Reginald (June 1958). "British Indian Policy in the Northwest, 1807–1812". Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 45 (1): 51–66.
  JSTOR 1886695
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• Horseman, Reginald (2011) [1963]. "The Role Of The Indian In The War". In Philip P. Mason (ed.). After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812. Michigan State University Press. pp. 60–77.
  ISBN 978-1-60917-209-1
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• Misiak, Zig, "War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations",2012,
  ISBN 978-0-9811880-5-8 [1]
• Owsley, Frank. Struggle for the Gulf borderlands: the Creek War and the battle of New Orleans 1812–1815 (1981)
• Rugeley, Terry (1989). "Savage and Statesman: Changing Historical Interpretations of Tecumseh".
  JSTOR 27791326
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• 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