James K. Polk. One author notes, “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, 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.

Chapter One: Old Hickory's Boy …If James K. Polk came of age intellectually during his two and a half years at Chapel Hill, Tennessee in the interim had also come of age.

James K. Polk (left) could provide a model for Joe R. Biden. Biden photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images. Maybe you don't like Joe Biden because he's so associated with the last president, who ...

Three decades later, Eugene Irving McCormac recounted it in his 1922 James K. Polk: A Political Biography-- the first full-fledged study, drawing on primary sources, of the Polk presidency.

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to “Young Hickory” - James K. Polk. Prior to becoming the 11th president - Polk began his career in politics in the Tennessee legislature.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee National Guard celebrated the life and legacy of former President James K. Polk in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tennessee State Capitol Nov. 2 in honor of Polk ...

James K. Polk expanded the U.S. more than any other president. Now his portrait hangs in the Oval Office, a signal that President Trump’s ambition to take over Canada, Greenland and other ...

In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United States from sea to shining sea. Polk maintained a “keen ability to balance the diverse desires of the nation ...