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

The pending Nippon Steel deal would be unusual in granting the U.S. government some control over a private company—models ...

The pending Nippon Steel deal would be unusual in granting the U.S. government some control over a private company — models ...

Travis and Jason Kelce fundraise at the Big Slick Weekend in Kansas City, plus Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm, Molly Shannon and more.

Polk, a Democrat who served from 1845-49, added California and the rest of the ... who also wrote the 2010 book “A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest ...

James K. Polk and Manifest Destiny President James ... million and received almost half of the Mexican territory including California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming ...

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 ...

(President James K Polk 1860 (Photo by ... Polk would bring in the territory that we now know as the states of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon ...

And it wasn’t until former President James K. Polk spoke of “accounts of the abundance of gold” in his December State of the Union address that people began to flock to California in droves.

In the 1840s, expansionist President James K. Polk considered taking most of what ... from the ocean on a neighborhood near Burbank, California to protect homes from spreading wildfires.

Specifically James K. Polk. The 11th president staked his 1844 presidential ... has extended the invitation for Washington, Oregon and California to become new Canadian provinces. “Hey Donald, have we ...