“Manifest Destiny touched the issues of religion, money, race, patriotism and morality. These clashed in the 1840s as a truly great drama of regional conflict.” James K. Polk was in the ...

(President James K Polk 1860 (Photo ... Might Trump do as Polk did and find a pretext to send U.S. forces into Mexico? One hundred and eighty years after Manifest Destiny had its vogue, Trump ...

In case you were wondering, the best lyric from the James K. Polk song is this: "He's just the man we need/ To bring about victory/ Fulfill our manifest destiny." That's one hell of a rhyme.

In “Met His Every Goal? James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny,” Tom Chaffin, a University of Tennessee professor who is also editor of “Correspondence of James K. Polk,” sings ...

The original "dark horse" candidate, Polk was initially considered only ... he endorsed the idea that his nation had a "manifest destiny" to rule from sea to sea. He supported the "re-occupation ...

Polk" and the book 'Met His Every Goal': James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny Tom Chaffin is research professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is author of ...

President James K. Polk, at the end of a year ... the speed and trajectory of America's "Manifest Destiny" — a phrase popularized in Polk's presidency just three years earlier in 1845.

James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate, laid out his foreign policy and domestic aims early, achieved them in one term and then declined to run again. Billed as the "Manifest Destiny ...