Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...

Challenges: James K. Polk was an avowed expansionist, committed to acquiring California and New Mexico from Mexico even at the risk of war. Polk acquired the then British-held territory of Oregon and ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And ...

The president is not George W. Bush but James K. Polk. But like President Bush, Polk's deception about his reasons for going to war and his facile assumptions about an easy U.S. victory ...

In his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump reached back into history to signal how he will implement his promise ...

James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate ... His attempt to acquire California and New Mexico from the south provoked the Mexican War... Died: June 15, 1849. Polk was the last strong ...