As This Blog Enters Its Sixth Year

Today I begin the sixth year of this blog with my 2128th post.

This blog began out of my Cooter's History Thing blog and began to mark the bicentennial of the war.

I even occasionally taught about this war in my classes at John T. Magee Middle School in Round Lake, Illinois, but usually didn't get that far in my U.S. History to the Civil War 7th grade classes.

I realized I didn't know all that much about the War of 1812 and this was a good way to solve that problem.

At first, i was just going to keep this going through to the end of the 200th anniversary of the war, but, that didn't happen.

--Brock-Perry  (For Isaac Brock and Oliver Hazard Perry)