Fort Polk became Fort Polk once again. But this time the base's name refers to Gen. James H. Polk, awarded the Silver Star ...

Polk now refers to a General James H. Polk, a World War II cavalryman who became a commander of U.S. Army Europe.

FORT POLK - In a ceremony Friday at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, the Vernon Parish Army base was redesignated in honor of Gen. James H. Polk, who was awarded the Silver Star during ...

President Donald Trump announced a series of events for July 4, which marks 250 years of American independence ...

The U.S. president, James K. Polk, had campaigned on a policy platform of territorial expansion and sought to establish the United States as a hemispheric power. Polk coveted California and its ...

I drove just 15 miles west to the prosperous town of Pineville. Located within the municipal limits are the 21 acres that comprise the President James F. Polk State Historic Site.

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.

The 1846 Oregon Treaty, negotiated by President James K. Polk, extended the line west of the Rocky Mountains and largely finalized the U.S.-Canada boundary.

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 ...