Professor of History at Wayne State College in Nebraska, and author of six books on the war of 1812, most recently: a new edition of the War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict” and “Rockets Red Glare: An Illustrated History of the War of 1812.”
Two hundred years ago today, the War of 1812 began. The United States was still in its infancy when Congress declared war, but by the time the Americans and British signed the Treaty of Ghent in 1815, the U.S. had emerged from its adolescence into adulthood.
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