tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post2588955889903888981..comments2024-01-26T17:29:53.415-05:00Comments on Reader's Almanac: Historian Donald R. Hickey discusses how America’s “forgotten” war shaped our young nationThe Library of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-1425475128321828002013-06-08T16:42:30.857-04:002013-06-08T16:42:30.857-04:00Pre-WWI American History books are more candid abo...Pre-WWI American History books are more candid about the British posture during the War of 1812, of their brutality, etc, and similarly during the Revolution, some 25 years earlier. However, with our entrance to WWI, Woodrow Wilson, a staunch Anglopile historian, speaking prominently of our British legacy, essentially launched a revisionist picture of the War of 1812, as well as that of the Revolution. That approach was further galvanized with WWII, and has remained part of the standard narrative to date.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-47511282618857895442013-05-22T12:55:19.516-04:002013-05-22T12:55:19.516-04:00Really looking forward to reading this volume on a...Really looking forward to reading this volume on an oft-overlooked chapter in American history. At first I was concerned it might just be a re-tread of the author's 2012 work by nearly the same title, but it is clear that this is a painstakingly assembled overview of the conflict with plenty of first-person narrative. Thanks! Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14106461832961719309noreply@blogger.com