Democrat James Polk is the only president never to have had children, not even by adoption, but it's far from his only claim to fame. Our 11th president is best known for expanding the nation's ...

James Polk may not exactly be a household name, but for many in his home state of Tennessee, the nation’s 11th president is still regarded as a hero worthy of national recognition. James Polk may not ...

To their shock, many American-history readers who loved biographies of Adams, Lincoln, or Jackson will find among their 2009 holiday gifts a biography of—there's no disguising it—James K. Polk. If ...

In seeking timeless lessons in the story of President James Polk and his Mexican War, we might best begin by noting that few presidents have been dogged through history by the controversies and ...

April 1 (UPI) --For a third time, the "final" resting place of James K. Polk, the nation's 11th president, may be moved after a vote of the Tennessee state Senate. Polk's long and strange posthumous ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--The Tennessee Senate passed a resolution Monday that would allow the body of former President James K. Polk to be exhumed and moved to a fourth resting place. Polk and his wife, ...

“Who is James K. Polk?” his opponents in the 1844 presidential election mockingly asked. Two centuries later, the question is asked again more quizzically. For one thing, James K. Polk proved a ...

“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 of our country’s most consequential ...

Cogent and considered recollections of older black men from Texas and the broadly American South below the Mason-Dixon line generally bear a sobering universality. One of these gentlemen, Dr. James ...

• James Knox Polk was born in North Carolina and at age 10 moved with his family to Tennessee. The journey to the frontier was hard for him, and he suffered from illness for most of his youth. • Polk ...