One of the greatest fears of the Founding Fathers of the United States was the emergence of a new tyranny of a monarchy or oligarchy. A strong independent and republican strain rebelled against the idea of power being concentrated in the hands of the few. They were even more repelled by the idea of nepotistic families dominating politics in the fledgling nation. But America has never […]
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In March 1981 Ronald Reagan defied an assassin’s bullet and went on to lead America for another seven years. Did the President also dodge something more powerful than a gun? Did the Gipper survive and even break the Curse of Tippercanoe? On 7 November 1811, US army forces led by William Henry Harrison, then Governor of the Indiana Territory, defeated the Shawnee Confederacy of Native Americans […]