We feel so fortunate to have these opportunities to talk with prominent War of 1812 historian, Don Hickey.

In this episode we come to the year 1812 and conflict begins on the western frontier of Upper Canada and the American Old Northwest.

Learn about the capture of Fort Mackinaw, the massacre at Fort Dearborn and the capture of Detroit.

Don Hickey is a historian and award-winning author who spent fifty years teaching in higher education.

The author of twelve books and more than a hundred articles, he has been called “the dean of 1812 scholarship” by the New Yorker. He is best known for The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (Bicentennial edition, 2012) and Don’t Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 (2006).

Don consulted and lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, and the British Isles during the bicentennial of the war.

For promoting public interest in history, Don received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum in 2013, and while consulting with the U.S. Post Office during the bicentennial, he was quoted by name in 2015 on the sheet of stamps commemorating the Battle of New Orleans.

For more on Don and his books, please visit:https://hickeyhistory.com/

We are so pleased to have another opportunity to talk with Don Hickey.

His latest book "Tecumseh's War" serves as a great basis to look at the part of the United States that came to be known as the Old Northwest.

Conflicts between the expansionist United States. aggressive settlers and the resident indigenous people created much friction and conflict in the late 18th and early 19th Century that would carry on into the War of 1812 and beyond.

This is our first opportunity to meet Tecumseh, the Prophet and William Henry Harrison.

You can learn more about Don and his books at: https://hickeyhistory.com/

This episode was recording on December 5th, 2025

We had planned an episode on American Militia asking Don Hickey to join us with Don Graves.

Unfortunately Don Graves passed away on November 11, 2025.

Don Hickey was extremely gracious to agree to still do the episode. The result was an interesting conversation delving much deeper into a subject not commonly discussed.

This episode was recorded on November 26, 2025.

Don Hickey is a giant in the study of War of 1812. He is a retired American academic who has written and lectured extensively on the War of 1812.

You can visit his website at: https://hickeyhistory.com/

On his website you can also find information on a number of his books, a must for any serious study on the War of 1812.