BackStory

Mentioned on the Show

• Watch Johnny Horton’s 1959 rendition of “The Battle of New Orleans”
• Learn about the Civil War of 1812 from Alan Taylor
• Explore patriotism and the War of 1812 with Nicole Eustace
• Read Adam Jortner’s study of the Battle of Tippecanoe
• Delve into Bill C. Malone’s Country Music, USA

Outside Links

• The Battle of New Orleans in American memory
• The interesting  results of a US-Canada poll about the War of 1812 and its bicentennial
• A Star Spangled hoax
• CollegeHumor’s video “The War of 1812: The Movie”

Works Consulted

• Banner, James.  To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815.  New York: Knopf, 1970.

• Jortner, Adam. The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

• Malone, Bill C.  Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

• Malone, Bill C.  Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music and the Southern Working Class.  Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

• Morison, Samuel Eliot, Frederick Merk, and Frank Friedell.  Dissent in Three American Wars.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.

• Peterson, Richard A.  Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

• Stagg, J.C.A.  The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 

• Sugden, John.  Tecumseh: A Life.  New York: Holt, 1997.

• Taylor, Alan.  The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies.  New York: Vintage, 2010.