Don Hickey: 1812: War Arrives in the Northwest

We feel so fortunate to have these opportunities to talk with prominent War of 1812 historian, Don Hickey. In this episode we come to the year 1812 and conflict begins on the western frontier of Upper Canada and the American Old Northwest. Learn about the capture of Fort Mackinaw, the massacre at Fort Dearborn and the capture of Detroit. Don Hickey is a historian and award-winning author who spent fifty years teaching in higher education. The 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). Don consulted and lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, and the British Isles during the bicentennial of the war. For promoting public interest in history, Don received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum in 2013, and while consulting with the U.S. Post Office during the bicentennial, he was quoted by name in 2015 on the sheet of stamps commemorating the Battle of New Orleans.For more on Don and his books, please visit:https://hickeyhistory.com/