In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United States from sea to shining sea. Polk maintained a “keen ability to balance the diverse desires of the nation while ...
Some people coin phrases. Journalist John L. O’Sullivan minted one this week (Dec. 27) in 1845 when he wrote in The Democratic Review that it was America’s “manifest destiny to overspread and to ...
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