In commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed 2 February 1848, a link to a video produced by Luis Valdez in 196...

Historians know more about the events of the past than the people who lived through them. Naturally, we can see events in proper perspecti...

As is true for perhaps ten percent of my books, I know neither when nor how I acquired Polk: The Diary of a President, 1845-1849 (1968 [192...

Two religious traditions are pervasive in American culture. The evangelical tradition is the spiritual; civil religion , the political. Thes...

Few United States presidents were as avowedly expressionistic as President James Knox Polk. During his administration (1845-1849) more land ...