Week 4: War of 1812 / Social media

Materials:

• Eustace, Nicole. “Demographic Strategies and the Defeat of Tecumseh: MORAVIANTOWN, CANADA, OCTOBER 1813.” In 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism, 118–67. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj70n.7.
• Chapter 4 of Armstrong, Benjamin. Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. (This book is available online through the GMU library.)
• “The Slaves’ Gamble,” Preble Hall podcast with Gene Smith.

• McDaniel, Caleb. “Slave Sales on Twitter.” 15 November 2014.

In class

We talk to Commander B.J. Armstrong about his book! Then we talk about the rest of the War of 1812.