The Journal of Southern History, November 1st, 2001
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Santa Barbara, Calif., and other cities: ABC-CLIO, c. 1997. Pp. xxxviii, 636. $95.00, ISBN 0-87436-968-1.) Given the recent anniversaries of the U.S.-Mexican and Spanish-American Wars, the War of 1812 can now claim exclusive title as the least-known major conflict in our history. Despite the recent appearance of a number of good campaign narratives and a few works of more general significance, the origins of the war no longer receive the scholarly attention they did during the 1950s and 1960s, and the foci of r...
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