The Creek War has long been overlooked. In "A Brutal Reckoning," Peter Cozzens shows how it changed the course of American history.

“A Brutal Reckoning” is Peter Cozzens’ study of the bloody Creek War (1813-14) and its terrible consequences, to wit, the elevation of Andrew Jackson ...

The Creek War is little known to most Americans today. In some respects, this is unsurprising. The conflict lasted a little more than a year and unfolded against the backdrop of another overlooked ...

Step into the forgotten world of the 1813 Creek War, where every beep of the detector brings us closer to buried history. Using top-tier gear, we scour war camps that once hosted legends of the ...

The Creek War, for example, is often overshadowed by the contemporaneous War of 1812, which is described as America's second war of independence.

Horseshoe Bend was the final battle of the Creek War. Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation signed a treaty with the United States that was supposed to allow them to stay in Alabama.

A long series of nationally publicized events known as the Coal Creek War tested this concept. The Anderson County town of Coal Creek was founded when the railroad first came in, around 1870.