Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The War Of 1812 In Canada And The United States In 2012

Karim M. Tiro is chair of the Department of History at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal (Massachusetts, 2011) and co-editor of Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani (Pennsylvania, 2006). In 2011-12, he was visiting professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is currently researching the history of the Lake Ontario salmon fishery.

This essay benefitted from the comments of Carl Benn, the anonymous reviewer for The Public Historian, and colleagues in the history department at Xavier University. The research was supported by a grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada.