Roosevelt the Revisionist -Young TR takes on the War of 1812
By Meredith Hindley Article below originally published in 2013 by the National Endowment for the Humanities: www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/septemberoctober/feature/roosevelt-the-revisionist Just after two o’clock in the afternoon on September 10, 1813, Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry was one of the few men still standing—or even alive—on the USS Lawrence. British cannon balls and grapeshot lobbed across the murky