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Gregory Dowd, A Spirited Resistance (1993). A penetrating account of Indian resistance to American expansion.
Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor (2002). A cultural analysis of the politics of the 1790s.
Jon Kukla, A Wilderness So Immense (2004). A sweeping account of the contexts for the Louisiana Purchase.
Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812 (2010). Presents the contest for Canada as a multiethnic civil war.
Ashli White, Encountering Revolution (2012). Considers the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the United States.
The War of 1812 (PBS video, 2011) and its accompanying Web site (pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/home/) offer reenactments, animations, interpretive essays, and historical site analyses.