In 1846, the plains of Illinois fueled dreams. With rich soils and prairie grasses taller than a horse’s head, it attracted ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson detailed how President Donald Trump shook him down for a portrait of President James Polk during a ...

It also jibes with behind-the-scenes reporting of Trump wanting a painting of James Polk—president during the largest expansion of U.S. territory in American history—hanging in the Oval Office.

Martin Van Buren: Eighth US president and founder of the Democratic Party. Mr Trump's decision to hang a portrait of James Polk, a president from the 1800s who oversaw the largest territorial ...

who was Mary Polk Walker, daughter of James Knox Walker, was the niece of President Polk. Archibald Barklie last night confirmed the announcement of his engagement to Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott of ...

Grant, the 18th president, who served between 1869 and ... Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James Polk and Zachary Taylor. How’s this for some American irony? The building where, in 1865, the U.S ...

Gessen and Bret Stephens to discuss how President Trump’s second term has ... In the first term, Trump was so consumed by individuals, by James Comey, by Robert Mueller, by Hillary Clinton ...

UC regents have named University of Texas Chancellor James B. Milliken as the next president of the University of California.

The House speaker would have good reason to turn it down.

Polk County’s four members of the U.S. House voted along partisan lines on “One Big Beautiful Act,” the reconciliation spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump. The measure passed by a 215-214 ...