Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.

This confluence of factors, which captured the nationalistic energy of Manifest Destiny, deeply informed how President James K. Polk and his cabinet secretaries conceptualized the most important ...

[9] Charles Sellers, James K. Polk: Continentalist (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966), 310-311. [10] 1844 Democratic Party Platform, May 27, 1844, The American Presidency Project ...

in an NPR news report -- is that he now has one hanging of former president James K. Polk of Tennessee. It was perhaps done since he was president at a time when America was an expansionist nation.

In 1846, 17 years after Smithson's death, President James K. Polk signed legislation calling for the Institution's formation. The Smithsonian now operates a broad range of cultural centers in ...

The Polk County School Board voted 6-0 to offer the general counsel position to James Greene, who has the same role with ...

In 1846, 17 years after Smithson's death, President James K. Polk signed legislation calling for the Institution's formation. The Smithsonian now operates a broad range of cultural centers in ...

In 1846, 17 years after Smithson's death, President James K. Polk signed legislation calling for the Institution's formation. The Smithsonian now operates a broad range of cultural centers in ...