This program featured five views of President James K. Polk's politics and times, from his relationship with predecessor Martin Van Buren to his role as a wartime chief executive. This panel was ...

“From sea to shining sea” may very well have served as the professional motto of James K. Polk, our 11th president. Although he served only one term, he was one ...

Donald Trump, James K. Polk and presidential parallels. Obstinate, vindictive, humorless, the 11th president's harshness on the Mexican border may have led to good results. Will Trump's?

James K. Polk may have served just one term, but he was one of history’s most consequential U.S. presidents. Polish up on Young Hickory, America's 11th Commander in Chief.

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 ...

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.” ...

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.

James K. Polk scholars talked about his ancestry, politics and policies. This panel was part of a two-day conference marking the completion of the 60-year project to assemble and edit Polk's ...

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.

The National Park Service on Monday transmitted the James K. Polk Presidential Home Special Resource Study (SRS) to Congress, concluding that the 11th president’s Columbia, Tennessee, residence ...

When President James K. Polk was elected, however, he supported the Manifest Destiny doctrine, which said that the U.S.’s destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean.