The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 by Gene Allen Smith

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-791
Author(s):  
James G. Cusick
Keyword(s):  
War Of 1812

Hail Columbia!

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lohman
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Early American ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Dominance ◽  
The Government

This book examines music as political expression in the early American republic from the post-revolutionary era through the aftermath of the War of 1812. Americans used music as a discursive tool during every major political development. The nation’s leaders faced challenges ranging from threats to the structure of the government to impressment, all amid the nearly constant threat of embroilment in European war and insecurity about the republic’s viability. Americans responded by using music to protest, stifle protest, propagandize, and vie for political dominance. Through music they persuaded, intimidated, lauded, legitimated, and demonized their fellow Americans based on their political beliefs and actions. In music they debated crucial questions about the roles and rights of citizens, the structure of government, and the pursuit of peace and prosperity. They used music to construct powerful narratives about the nation’s history, values, and institutions; to celebrate the accomplishments of country, community, and individual; and to reinforce a sense of identity in national and partisan terms. Organized chronologically, chapters address musical forms of propaganda during ratification of the Constitution, musical expression of transnational revolutionary aspirations, Federalist and Republican narratives of political legitimacy in music, political debates in music during the embargo years, and musical myth-making during the War of 1812. The conclusion summarizes this music’s reception through the remainder of the nineteenth century.

New York Militia and Opposition to the War of 1812

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Harvey Strum
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
War Of 1812

The Churches Militant: The War of 1812 and American Religion

1974 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 518
Author(s):  
Donald G. Mathews ◽  
William Gribbin
Keyword(s):  
War Of 1812 ◽  
American Religion

The Campaign of Periodicals After the War of 1812 for National American Literature

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 262-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. McCloskey
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
American Mind ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Foreign Influence ◽  
Wide Experience

American triumphs on the sea in the War of 1812 tempered the American mind into a belief in its power to express itself in a literature independent of any foreign influence. Previously America had shown only a faltering confidence in herself as a literary nation. No great protestations of literary strength had appeared in the periodicals. But with America's victory in this second war with the mother country, a new-found note of confidence came into literature. This new confidence was not, however, a nation-wide experience. It was a political phenomenon, Democratic rather than Federal.

The Indians in the War of 1812

1950 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. G. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
War Of 1812

The War of 1812: Land Operations.

1984 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
John K. Mahon ◽  
George F. G. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
War Of 1812
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