The URL on Maryland's default license plate between 2010 and 2016 commemorating the War of 1812 now leads to a website promoting online gambling in the Philippines.

There are uncanny similarities between partisan politics in the run-up to that crisis and the present strife over tax policy, budgetary priorities, and the national debt.

Violent protesters storming the US Capitol on Wednesday marked the first time that the building had been breached since the War of 1812. On Aug. 24, 1814, the British invaded Washington, D.C., and ...

If we knew the history better, the War of 1812 could teach us plenty. It offers us cautionary tales about the political miscalculations of American leaders, the risks of rushing into war, and the ...

The War of 1812 in Michigan would decide who controlled the Northwestern Frontier.

Upstart nation declares war on former colonial master, nearly gets blown off the map but rallies to squeak out a moral victory: Why does the War of 1812 get so little notice or respect?

The War of 1812 helped "the State come into its own" by concentrating power and interest in the national government.

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A Black Maryland veteran of the War of 1812 is recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 152 years after his death.

WASHINGTON — For a piece of history that gave us the rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air, the War of 1812 tends to evoke a collective “Huh?” on the U.S. side of the border with ...

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional military honor due to protocols dating to the slavery era will be memorialized in a Frederick cemetery this weekend, though not by the ...