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UNITED STATES MILITARY HISTORY:
WAR OF 1812
Causes, Diplomacy, and Politics
Barlow, William R. "Congress during the War of 1812." Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1961.
-----. "Ohio Congressmen and the War of 1812." Ohio History, 72 (July 1963), pp. 175-194, 257-259.
Bell, Rudolph M. "Mr. Madison's War and Long-Term Congressional Voting Behavior." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 36 (July 1979), pp. .
Bowman, Albert H. "Jefferson, Hamilton, and American Foreign Policy." Political Science Quarterly, 71 (March 1956), pp. 18-41.
Brant, Irving. "Madison and the War of 1812." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 84 (January 1966), pp. 51-67.
Brown, Roger H. "The War Hawks of 1812: An Historical Myth." Indiana Magazine of History, 60 (June 1964), pp. 137-151.
-----. "A Vermont Republican Urges War: Royall Tyler, 1812, and the Safety of Republican Government." Vermont History, 36 (Winter 1968), pp. 13-18.
Brynn, Edward. "Patterns of Dissent: Vermont's Opposition to the War of 1812." Vermont History, (Winter 1972), pp. .
Carr, Albert H. Z. The Coming of War; an account of the remarkable events leading to the War of 1812. Garden City: Doubleday, 1960.
Cassell, Frank A. "The Great Baltimore Riot of 1812." Maryland Historical Magazine, 70 (Fall 1975), pp. 241-259.
Champagne, Raymond W., Jr., and Thomas J. Reuter. "Jonathan Roberts and the 'War Hawk' Congress of 1811-1812." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 104 (October 1980), pp. 434-449.
Cress, Lawrence Delbert. "'Cool and Serious Reflection': Federalist Attitudes Toward War in 1812." Journal of the Early Republic, 7 (Summer 1987), pp. 123-145.
DeConde, Alexander. "The War Hawks of 1812: A Critique." Indiana Magazine of History, 60 (June 1964), pp. 152-154.
Earl, Robert. "The War of 1812, Its Causes and Consequences." Herkimer County Historical Society Proceedings, 2 (1899), pp. 5-14.
Egan, Clifford L. "The Origins Of The War of 1812: Three Decades of Historical Writing." Military Affairs, 38 (April 1974), pp. 72-75.
-----. "The Path to War in 1812 Through the Eyes of a New Hampshire 'War Hawk'." Historical New Hampshire, 30 (Fall 1975), pp. 147-177.
Fabel, Robin F. A. "The Laws of War in the 1812 Conflict." Journal of American Studies, 14 (August 1980), pp. 199-218.
Fritz, Harry W. "The War Hawks of 1812." Capitol Studies, 5 (Spring 1977), pp. .
Goodman, Warren H. "The Origins of the War of 1812." Master's Thesis, Duke University, 1940.
-----. "The Origins of the War of 1812: A Survey of Changing Interpretations." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 28 (September 1941), pp. 171-186.
Hacker, Louis M. "Western Land Hunger and the War of 1812: A Conjecture." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 10 (1924), pp. 379-395.
Harmond, Richard J. "A Reluctant War Hawk: Ebenezer Sage of Sag Harbor, Long Island, and the Coming of the War of 1812." Journal of Long Island History, (Fall 1977), pp. 48-53.
Hatzenbuehler, Ronald L. "Party Unity and the Decision for War in the House of Representatives, 1812." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 29 (July 1972), pp. 367-390.
-----. "The War Hawks and the Question of Congressional Leadership in 1812." Pacific Historical Review, (February 1976), pp. 1-22.
-----, and Robert L. Ivie. Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1983.
Hickey, Donald R. "The Federalists and the War of 1812." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1972.
-----. "New England's Defense Problem and the Genesis of the Hartford Convention." New England Quarterly, 50 (December 1977), pp. .
-----. "Federalist Party Unity and the War of 1812." Journal of American Studies, (April 1978), pp. 23-39.
-----. "The Federalists and the Coming of the War, 1811-1812." Indiana Magazine of History, 75 (March 1979), pp. 70-88.
-----. "American Trade Restrictions during the War of 1812." Journal of American History, 68 (December 1981), pp. 517-538.
Hoffman, Ellen D. "'Unnecessary,' 'Unjustified' and 'Ruinous': Anti-War Rhetoric in Massachusetts Federalist Newspapers, 1812-1815." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1984.
Horsman, Reginald. The Causes of the War of 1812. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962.
-----. "Western War Aims, 1811-1812." Indiana Magazine of History, 53 (March 1957), pp. 1-18.
-----. "Who Were the War Hawks?" Indiana Magazine of History, 60 (June 1964), pp. 120-136.
-----. "On to Canada: Manifest Destiny and United States Strategy in the War of 1812." Michigan Historical Review, 13 (Fall 1987), pp. 1-24.
Johnson, Leland R. "The Suspense Was Hell: The Senate Vote for War in 1812." Indiana Magazine of History, 65 (December 1969), pp. 247-267.
Jones, Wilbur D. "A British View of the War of 1812 and the Peace Negotiations." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 45 (December 1958), pp. 481-487.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. "France and Madison's Decision for War, 1812." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 50 (March 1964), pp. 652-671.
Kaufman, Martin. "War Sentiment in Western Pennsylvania: 1812." Pennsylvania History, 31 (October 1964), pp. 436-448.
Lowery, Charles D. "James Barbour, a Politician and Planter of Antebellum Virginia." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1966.
Madonna, G. Terry. "The Lancaster Federalists and the War of 1812." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 71 (Trinity 1967), pp. 137-164.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. "The Henry-Crillon Affair of 1812." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 69 (1947-1950), pp. 207-231.
-----. "Our Most Unpopular War." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 80 (1968), pp. 38-54.
Pancake, John S. "The 'Invisibles': A Chapter in the Opposition to President Madison." Journal of Southern History, 21 (February 1955), pp. 17-37.
Perkins, Bradford, editor. The Causes of the War of 1812. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Pratt, Julius W. "Western Aims in the War of 1812." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 12 (1925), pp. 36-50.
Risjord, Norman K. "1812: Conservatives, War Hawks, and the Nation's Honor." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 18 (April 1961), pp. 196-210.
-----. "The War Hawks and the War of 1812." Indiana Magazine of History, 60 (1964), pp. 155-158.
Rosenthal, Herbert H. "James Barbour, Virginia Politician, 1775-1842." Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 1942.
Schener, Michael F. "Who Should Own The Lakes? Negotiations Preceding the Treaty of Ghent." Inland Seas, 38 (Winter 1982), pp. 236-244.
Shaw, Peter. "War of 1812 Could Not Take Place: Henry Adams' History." Yale Review, (Summer 1973), pp. 544-556.
Smith, Theodore Clarke. "War Guilt in 1812." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 64 (June 1931), pp. 319-345.
Stagg, J. C. A. "James Madison and the 'Malcontents': The Political Origins of the War of 1812." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 33 (October 1976), pp. 557-585.
-----. "James Madison and the Coercion of Great Britain: Canada, the West Indies, and the War of 1812." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 38 (January 1981), pp. 3-34.
Steel, Anthony. "Impressment in the Monroe-Pinkney Negotiations, 1806-1807." American Historical Review, 57 (January 1952), pp. 352-369.
Strum, Harvey J. "New York and the War of 1812." Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1978.
-----. "New York Federalists and Opposition to the War of 1812." World Affairs, (Winter 1980), pp. 169-187.
-----. "New Jersey Politics and the War of 1812." New jersey History, 105 (Fall/Winter 1987), pp. 37-69.
Stuart, Reginald C. "Special Interests and National Authority in Foreign Policy: American-British Provincial Links during the Embargo and the War of 1812." Diplomatic History, 8 (Fall 1984), pp. .
Talmadge, John E. "Georgia's Federalist Press and the War of 1812." Journal of Southern History, 19 (November 1953), pp. 488-500.
Wagner, Edward J., II. "State-Federal Relations During the War of 1812." Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1963.
Walker, William A., Jr. "Martial Sons: Tennessee Enthusiasm for the War of 1812." Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 20 (March 1961), pp. 20-37.
Watson, G. E. "The United States and the Peninsular War, 1808-1812." Historical Journal, 19 (December 1976), pp. 859-876.
Wiltse, Charles M. "The Authorship of the War Report of 1812." American Historical Review, 49 (January 1944), pp. 253-259.
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Zimmerman, James F. Impressment of American Seamen. New York: Columbia University, 1925.