This small episode is, if nothing else, a reminder of the strange place that the War of 1812 occupies in the historical memory of the United States. But it matters a lot more in Canada where ...

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed is one of our nation’s greatest moments of resilience. The U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain in ...

Japanese representatives on board the USS Missouri during the September 2, 1945, surrender ceremony Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the end ... Erie during the War of 1812.

But often it is attrition that is decisive in modern warfare. As Stalin observed in the wake of the Second World War, “Hitler ...

Under a murky, drizzling sky, four American militiamen, dressed in their 19th century uniforms and replica weapons in hand, surveyed the land. Then they took their place in line, reading over the ...

We’ve both served in the Middle East supporting the Global War on Terror, an open-ended conflict without an achievable mission that only those we’ve lost have seen the end of. On this year’s ...

Toward the end of September, the High Command authorized ... force to capture an enemy warship on the high seas since the War of 1812. Depth charges forced the Type IX boat, U-505, to the surface ...

But if you think you know where the story will end up, you may be surprised ... Comet of 1811 (which lasted into 1812) was visible for 260 days—the longest period for any comet until Hale–Bopp in 1997 ...

Toward the end of his term, a bill to charter a second ... The public viewed the results of the War of 1812 so favorably that the Federalist Party faithful who had opposed the war witnessed ...

We now arrive at “Old Hickory” - Andrew Jackson. Prior to becoming the seventh president Jackson was the first man elected to ...

Although it’s a city-run cemetery today, Beech Grove was founded in 1841 as a Center Township graveyard. The original grounds ...

Through advocacy and litigation, the ACLU has been seeking an end to this failed war on drugs and our costly addiction to incarceration for decades. Go here to read more about the ACLU’s work to end ...