War of 1812 Bicentennial

Looking for current news articles about the War of 1812? See news and events. For journal articles, see journals.

Around 200 years ago, during the War of 1812, North American newspapers had not yet become the "poor man's University" that they would later become (few newspapers in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region had even been published for more than a decade then); yet, they are still a valuable source of copies of primary documents and of detailed descriptions and commentary about the War of 1812. Useful information can sometimes be found in later newspapers as well.

Over 55 historic newspaper articles related to the War of 1812 are available here. Select a newspaper below to view available articles for that paper:

• Quebec Mercury (18 articles from 1812, 1813, 1814)
• Plattsburgh Republican (13 articles from 1812, 1814) (Battle of Plattsburg)
• Kingston Gazette (7 articles from 1812)
• Connecticut Courant (4 articles from 1812, 1813)
• Montreal Herald (3 articles from 1812)
• Canadian Illustrated News (3 articles from 1876)
• Victoria Daily Colonist (2 articles from 1892, 1901)
• New-York Weekly Museum (1 article from 1814)
• White Cloud Kansas Chief (1 article from 1863)
• Illustrated London News (1 article from 1865)
• Stevens Point Daily Journal (1 article from 1913)
• New York Evening World (1 article from 1918)

For lists of works sorted by topic, year, etc., see the list of all works.