![]() ![]() Article 4: Veterans and the democratization of memory.The years 1812–1815 seemed to ratify the popular memory of 17, igniting new nationalism. “Victory” in the War of 1812 unleashed a wave of American patriotism after 1815, ironically emphasizing the triumph of the American Revolution more than the split decision of the “Late War.” The glories of the latter struggle-such as they were-were rendered indistinct as the war was subsumed by Revolutionary memory. Article 3: New nationalism in an "Era of Good Feelings".The Senate ratified the pact two days later, and forgetting could begin. Signed in Belgium on Christmas Eve in 1814, copies arrived in Washington on February 14, 1815. ![]() If the War of 1812 was largely a series of military disasters for the United States, the Treaty of Ghent that ended it was a windfall and godsend. ![]() Article 2: Short term memory: Eeking a victory from the depths of defeat.The war is the only one in American history designated simply by the year of its commencement, and for nearly a hundred years after it ended in 1815, its name hardly even qualified as a proper noun. If the War of 1812 played a more important role in American public memory, it would likely have earned a less generic name. Article 1: A war that looms small in American memory. ![]()
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