The two presidents in the 1800s were born near Charlotte but carried out their political careers in Tennessee.
Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...
Readers offer strong opinions on President Trump’s proposal to evict millions of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
James K. Polk. A sleeper. Yes, he wanted to reduce tariffs – one strike against him in the Trump ledger. But he also was an expansionist: Oregon. California. New Mexico. Why isn’t his portrait in the ...
Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...
James K. “Jim” Peachey, 72, of Reedsville, peacefully passed away at his home on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 surrounded by his family. Born on March 14, 1952, in Lewistown, he was the son of the late ...
James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly expansionist platform: acquire California and other land in the Southwest, annex the then-independent Republic of Texas and settle a dispute ...
James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States serving from 1845 to 1849. The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of ...
President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion ... sparking a conflict that lasted until 1848. The issue of the Oregon Territory — which included what’s now Oregon ...