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Captains Career Course: War of 1812

Find research resources for historical research and battle analysis including books, journals, and databases available at Stimson Library, and links to freely available scholarship and primary source material online

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Recommended Books

Amateurs, to Arms! by John R. Elting
Call Number: E 355 E51a 1991
The Darkest Day by Charles Geoffrey Muller
Call Number: E 355.6 M958d 2003
The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 by Spencer Tucker; James R. Arnold; Roberta Wiener; Paul G. Pierpaoli; John C. Fredriksen
Call Number: R E 354 E56 2012
The Incredible War of 1812 by J. Mackay Hitsman; Donald E. Graves
Call Number: E 355 H675i 1999
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict by Donald R. Hickey
Call Number: E 354 H628w 1989

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History books are organized by the Library of Congress Classification System.

Books on the War of 1812 are located in:

E 351 - E 364.9

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