President James K. Polk has returned to the White House as commentators find the thread of his themes in the man who brought him back -- President Donald Trump. For those who slept through history ...

Who is James K. Polk?” his opponents in the 1844 presidential election mockingly asked. Two centuries later, the question is ...

The Journal said that Trump has told White House visitors that he admires Polk, known for his championing of America’s “manifest destiny,” the belief that it was America’s God-given right to expand ...

Print shows a scene from the Battle of Monterrey ... Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans ...