The war also laid the foundation for an enduring peace with Canada, along one of the world’s longest borders. “We take that for granted today, but it’s an enormous boon to both countries that we’re ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pity the War of 1812. Its bicentennial is at hand and events are planned for all over North America, from Canada and the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic and the South. But good luck ...

A 200-foot-long, 740-ton schooner with 11,000 square feet of sail will make a stop at Canalside Aug. 7 and 8 as part of Buffalo's War of 1812 commemoration.

Joy Reid appeared on Don Lemon's show and claimed that Canada burned down the White House in 1814. However, the claim is false, as it was the British and not Canada who burned down the White House ...

“The war was so ill conceived and ineptly run that the government wanted to forget the whole embarrassment almost from the moment it ended,” says Gordon Wood, a leading historian of the early United ...