“Whose War of 1812? Competing Memories of the Anglo-American Conflict“, review by Jasper Trausch on www.history.ac.uk
“…The Canadian historian C. P. Stacey once remarked that the War of 1812 is ‘an episode in history that makes everybody happy, because everybody interprets it differently'. Americans believe they gave their former mother country a good drumming, Canadians pride themselves in turning back ‘the massed might of the United States', and ‘the English are happiest of all, because they don't even know it happened'. These competing perspectives are the result of the different functions the Anglo-American conflict served in their respective nations' historical master narratives…”
This article not only looks at the War of 1812, but also provides a substantial bibliography and reviews of recent publications on the conflict.