War+of+1812+-+Winners+and+Losers

Mike Clare University of Ontario Institute of Technology
 * 1812: Who Won the War? Who Lost the War? **
 * An Interactive Digital //eScrapbook// **

[] (great article from the Canadian perspective) - Damn Yankees: It was the victory that made us a nation. Now the Americans are rewriting history to claim __they__ won.

Donald Hickey of Wayne State College in Nebraska is one of the few American historians to call the war a loss for the U.S. Nonetheless, he considers the conflict to be an opiate of history. “Everybody’s happy with the outcome of the War of 1812,” Hickey notes wryly. “Americans are happy because they think they won. Canadians are happier because they know they won. And the British are happiest of all because they’ve forgotten all about it.”

Getting students to see history as a verb, “doing history”.

- conditions for victory - actual battles (22) - biographies of individuals - women, Afro-Americans, Canadians, Native Americans - medical practices - timeline - design the peace terms
 * Simulation: **

- invaders gone - independence respected no embargoes, freedom of the seas, no impressment - land the west, Canada - reparations
 * Conditions for Victory: How do you know you’ve won? **

What is your primary goal from the above?

- alliances - build up army and navy - how to deal with Britain’s navy - fighting with Native Americans/other countries? - Leadership (Competency, strategy, etc)
 * What is needed for a strong defense? **

Rank these needs in order of importance.

- Looking for evidence What evidence is there? How significant is it? What does it tell us? What evidence is “missing”? What does that tell us? - “weighing” the evidence going for quality over quantity
 * How do you know whose won a battle? **

- Slavery was banned in Canada in 1793. Runaway slaves and blacks living in Canada were granted full British citizenship - Not until WWI, are your chances of surviving a wound higher than your chances of dying from it
 * Interesting facts: **