This week Marinus talks with Professor Donald R Hickey (ret), noted American historian and author. They discuss the question: Who Won the War of 1812? and the conduct and results of the War.
Charles P Stacey, noted Canadian historian said in 1958: The War of 1812 is one of those episodes in history that makes everybody happy, because everybody interprets it in his own way. Doug DeCroix, a historian from New York State has added to that by stating: Americans are happy because they think they won; Canadians are happy because they know they won; and the British are happiest because they forgot it even happened. Don and Marinus discuss in detail the relative outcomes of the War for Americans, Canadians, the British and the Indigenous Nations of North America.
Donald R Hickey is an award-winning historian and author of twelve books and more than a hundred articles. He has been called “the dean of 1812 scholarship” by the New Yorker. He is best known for The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (Bicentennial edition, 2012) and Don’t Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 (2006). He received the Samuel Elliott Morrison Award from the USS Constitution Museum and has done extensive consulting for historical parks, museums, and government agencies. For more details, go to his Website: https://www.hickeyhistory.com.
