As Randall details in his 2017 book " Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution," the largely-forgotten conflict actually was one of the pivotal moments in American history. "They think of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' Dolley Madison saving Washington's portrait from the British and Andrew Jackson winning the battle of New Orleans."Īnd that's a pity. "I think that what most people know about it - if they know about it - they know just two or three things," explains Willard Sterne Randall, a Professor Emeritus and distinguished scholar of history at Champlain College in Vermont, in an email exchange. But ask someone about the nation's second big armed conflict, the one that occurred just a quarter of a century after the Revolution, and you may get just a perplexed shrug in response. Mark Makela/Getty ImagesĪmericans tend to be pretty interested in the Civil War, World War II and Vietnam.
Written by Francis Scott Key during the British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Sept. War of 1812 reenactors commemorate the bicentennial of the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
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