For more information, call the library at 633-3112. Registrations can be made at the library up until Thursday, Oct. The cost for lunch, provided by Red Cup, is $10. If you are interested in hearing more from Daughan, he plans to speak at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library’s October 12 Literary Luncheon. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Colorado, the University of New Hampshire, Wesleyan University and Connecticut College. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University and is a recipient of the 2008 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for his previous book, “If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy – From the Revolution to the War of 1812”.ĭaughan spent 3 years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, and was an instructor at the Air Force Academy and director of the MA program in international affairs there. Encompassing political, diplomatic, economic, as well as military history, he brings the battles to life, putting them in context with the larger war, and showing how the war couldn’t have been won without America’s foundling Navy.ĭaughan has spent more than fifteen years steeped in research of the era, sifting through primary sources from over twenty libraries, archives, and special collections on two continents. In his book, “1812: The Navy’s War,” Daughan offers a comprehensive history of what has been called our Second War of Independence. “England stopped treating us as a former colony and began treating us more as a partner, which meant there wasn’t constant warfare between the two countries.” Without this war the world today would be a far different place, Daughan said. “The War of 1812 initiated a fundamental change in Britain’s relationship with the United States,” Daughan said. Daughan argued that this war changed the shape of the world. Yet, with its 200th anniversary, historian and award-winning author George C. Published in 2011, this book discusses the navys role in the War of 1812 and how the many naval battles shaped the war. Historians can’t even agree on whether it’s important in our nation’s history or not. It lacks the body of work dedicated to other conflicts like the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World Wars I and II, and even the Korean War. Perhaps no war in American history is as overlooked as the War of 1812.
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