Stories of 1812

Stories of 1812 is an independently produced podcast series that presents the stories and achievements of individuals who lived during and participated in the War of 1812.

We will consider known figures such as Sir Isaac Brock, John Norton, William Hamilton Merritt, James Fitzgibbon, Winfield Scott, Tecumseh, Joseph Willcocks, Laura Secord and Richard Pierpoint. Our guests are historians, authors, researchers and experts who written and spoken on the lives of each of these characters.

Our Podcast follows a conversational and discursive style that we believe best elicits the personal stories of these individual men and women, their historic deeds and the qualities that make them memorable.

Objectives:

• We want to ensure that the War of 1812 story endures through the personal accounts of those who lived through that formative time, as it is these accounts that form the early history of North America.
• We wish to preserve the historical findings of authors, scholars, researchers, historians, educators, public officials and public citizens for posterity and to provide them with a powerful new social medium through which to promote their knowledge and exchange perspectives.