The Civil War of 1812

Speaker: Dr. Alan Taylor, Professor of History, University of California, Davis; Recorded April 19, 2012 - The year 2012 marked the bicentennial of the War of 1812, a formative moment in both Maine and U.S. history and the subject of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor's new book. Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America--an often brutal and sometimes comic war--and helps illuminate the tangled origins of the United States and Canada. Taylor, a Portland native, is one of the foremost historians of early America.