Don't Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812.(Book review)

From: Journal of the Early Republic | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Don't Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R. Hickey. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 376. Cloth, $34.95.)

The War of 1812 does not play a central role in the national creation story, nor does it currently garner much attention in the collective American memory. In fact, the conflict has been greatly overshadowed by the War for Independence, the American Civil War, and most recently by World War II. While students of the American past might remember that George Washington's army crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776, or that ...

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