William Henry Harrison

<p><span class="deck"> Five successive Benjamin Harrisons created a private empire of tobacco and trade and a great Virginia plantation</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Only Tecumseh came close to uniting the warring tribes, but his British allies and his less visionary people failed him</span> </p>

<p>The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The tragedy of Black Hawk, who became the eponym of a war he tried to avoid</span> </span></p>

<p>A former British ambassador and noted historian explains why "hard-headed self-possessed Americans go so wild with excitement at election times"</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Buried here, along with hundreds of congressmen and various Indian chiefs, are Mathew Brady, John Philip Sousa, and J. Edgar Hoover</span> </p>

<p>While his brother Tecumseh was assembling the greatest Indian confederation the United States army would ever confront, the “Prophet” launched a fateful preemptive attack in Indiana Territory in 1811.</p>