President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly expansionist ... calling for the U.S. to remove itself from world ...

Trump’s misguided belief that inside of every Canadian there is an American waiting to get out is a misconception that is ...

In 1845, President James K. Polk embraced a similar vision for territorial ... Expansionism often overextends the military and comes at the cost of life for both the occupiers and occupied.

James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly ... calling for the U.S. to remove itself from world conflicts and accusing American military allies of not paying their fair share.

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

But no American president has deployed such rhetoric in a century and half, not since James K. Polk threatened war ... astride crucial trade and military arteries, have made it a focal point ...

(Getty Images) The president was originally a secondary figure in government, with the focus of his enumerated powers being foreign and military ... House Speaker James K. Polk; James Garfield ...

In the 1840s, expansionist President James K. Polk considered taking most of what ... by every measure of military power. A Canadian “Super Scooper” firefighting aircraft dumps water scooped ...