The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

Not since the presidency of James K. Polk, circa 1845, has a single president made such a large change as Joe Biden in the territorial scale of the United States. Polk, however, expanded America’s ...

In the 1840s, expansionist President James K. Polk considered taking most of what ... NATO brought lasting peace to North America and Europe, outlasted the Soviet Union until it collapsed, then ...

In 1845, President James K. Polk embraced a similar vision for territorial expansion. He supported Texas annexation-then controlled by pro-slavery Anglo American settlers that had declared ...

Was America great during his youth in the 1950s ... There was, in fact, a Mexican War — prosecuted by President James K. Polk in 1846 — and even an attempt to expand the United States into ...

He claimed it was America’s God-given right “to overspread ... This belief, adopted by President James K. Polk, dismissed the sovereignty of Mexico and Indigenous nations and treated their ...

Carrie Underwood was honored to perform "America the Beautiful" at Donald ... not to have pets in the White House, with only James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson abstaining before then.

When he assumed office in 2016, he was the first in 100 years not to have pets in the White House, with only James K. Polk and Andrew ... From this moment on America’s decline is over.

“There have been a few presidents, I think most famously James K. Polk, who simply decided one ... in an Oval Office address. “With America’s sons in the fields far away, with America ...

Was America great during his youth in the 1950s ... There was, in fact, a Mexican war — prosecuted by President James K. Polk in 1846 — and even an attempt to expand the United States into ...

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” he wrote, “the United States of America feels that ... not since James K. Polk threatened war (“Fifty-four Forty ...