polk of ireland actually came from donegal. this was fine. in 1908 something happened. william harrison polk was in the final throes of finishing his monumental work on polk family and kinsmen and got a letter from earl b. polk in somerset county saying, whoops, there is a problem. william polk that left in 1723, he only made it up into dorchester county maryland and died three years later. this is not the william polk, great grandfather of the president clearly. so this caused a big problem for polk because he was anxious to finish his book and get it out before he died. he had been working on it for 45 years. this is the situation going back to the sons of robert polk, there were seven of them. he got in correspondence with his long-term colleague in louisville and they wrote letters back and forth and said which son should have been the right one. we should have picked somebody else. they didn't really have new information so all they could do is speculate. in the end for whatever reason william polk decided it must have been william, the second son. he must have been the gu

this is not william polk the great-grandfather of the president clearly. so this caused a problem for william harrison polk because he wanted to get the book out before he died even though he had been working on it for 45 years. going back to the sons of robert tran two, there were son of them-- of rubber polk and they went back and said which one would be the right one. they didn't really have any new information so all they could do was speculate. in the end for whatever reason, william harrison polk decided it must have been william ii son. he must have been the guy. that's the way that he wrote the book. that's a fact. doesn't make any qualifications or caveats, just says that's the way it was and the way that family history has come down the last couple of hundred years. his book and mrs.-- book because she did not use what he put in his, and that's what comes down to the present day. the problem is it was just speculation with no fact behind it and worse, it was actually wrong. that's what i want to mention now. i do want to mention we find places in

polk of ireland came from donegal. this was fine. in 1908 something happened. william harrison polk was in the final days of finishing his monumental work on the polk family. the got a letter from earl polk in the eastern shore. william polk who lived here in 7023 he only made it into maryland near somerset. then he died. so, this caused a big problem for william harrison polk. so, this is the situation going back to the sons of polk. there were seven of them. they go back and forth showing which son would've been the right one. should have picked someone else. they didn't have new information . all they could do is speculate. and for whatever reason he decided, east william, the second son. they ended up in north carolina. that's the way he wrote the book. he doesn't make any qualifications on it. that's the way the family history comes down to the last hundred years. does when it came down to the present day. the problem is of course it was just a speculation, and he had no fax behind it. and it actually is wrong. that's what i want to mention now. have a couple of s

you see that progression in the polk family, particularly i think of colonel william polk we heard talked about who was very influential in north carolina politics after the war. he didn't seem to have much of any religion at all. his son, leonodis polk, is a fascinatie ining character in t regard. his father said, well, you're going to be a soldier. he went to west point. graduated from west point. you probably all knknow all thi. he never took up a mission. instead, he found jesus at west point. that was the first person to be baptized in -- he was not baptized as a young person, he was baptized in the chapel at west point and he started a whole movement of other cadets that it had profound influence, you know, buts that was all with the e ppiscopal church. look throughout the south, all the churches in louisiana, alabama, tennessee, were all going back to him. and there was a huge upset by his father, colonel william polk, leonodis decided this is the way he wants to go. >> right. >> he's a fascinating man. he was the man who founded the university of the south and the image of wanting

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in the early days, president james k polk received a letter from his old classmates, william don mosley, they had studied together at the university of carolina, and both men have joined the ascendant credit party, during the jackson admonition, polk, serving in the house, to help advance jackson's calls mostly represent lenore county in north carolina senate, from 1829 until 1837, following his defeat for the senates governorship, mostly with his family, when he aided the territory received into the union as a state. eventually serving as first governor in 1845. polk mostly curried, but mostly expressed his concern about the oregon territory and a possible war with great britain. the war would overcome oregon, mostly turned to the almighty, and he thanked him that his friend was president. flattering, he expressed, i fully believe that he intended to bless this country when he placed you here, his parting words were, do what you believe is right, and i know you will, interest the consequences to your god and all will be right. this letter is but one example among many within the corres

polk, brother of leonodis polk and son of colonel william polk, lived in murray county. he also had 88 slaves in chico county, arkansas. didn't live there, at least not all the time. married into the hilliard family. he and john polk were talking about one of the wealthy planter families in southeast arkansas. and may have also had some mississippi plantations as well. there's a hamilton polk also who's got a large operation in bullard county, mississippi, and may have as many as three that he's got. one of those seems to be a joint venture. we see james k. polk did this with his brother-in-law, pool your resources, purchase a plantation, purchase enslaved people to put on it and use that as your investment. but these polk investments are not always absenteabsentee. sometimes they begin absentee, i suspect, but then they -- the family will end up sort of moving there. that's one of the things if you're not familiar with the history of the trans-mississippi south, people thought arkansas was the edge of the earth. people still think arkansas is the edge of the earth. so yo

attorney general william polk removes the acting director of prisons off to the suicide of jeffrey abstain we discuss the conditions at the jail where epstein took his life with his former lawyer. is fundamentally wrong with that is that jeffrey epstein did not belong in that facility to begin with. the u.s. military and answers plans for new intermediate range hypersonic missiles after pulling out of the i and their treaty with russia and test launching a new cruise missile. you are watching on t.v. international i'm rosana lockridge thank you for joining us. now more than a year of tensions in italy's ruling coalition have come to a head with the italian prime minister just 60 kaante resigning that's after the country's interior minister matteo savvy called for a vote of no confidence it once again leaves italy in a deep political crisis. well that resignation over its lease prime minister said because they had been widely speculated for the last few days and now it's happened to course plunging its lead into a fresh political crisis in his resignation speech on cheese the often he notic

from, you know, those -- that kind of work like from his dad, from his father's cousin, colonel william polk, also, you know, they speculate in land. they diversify and all kinds of things or took advantage of what was available. so of course james k. polk is watching these -- this business, you know, very carefully. he's forging partnerships. in fact, when a man who has gone down in history as chunky jack kept running -- i'm full of these -- chunky jack kept running away from polk's mississippi plantation to arkansas because arkansas is the end of the earth. chunky jack keeps running off to arkansas. all james k. polk has to do is plug into those connections, political, family, all of the above, right, to help him retake chunky jack. here's something that's interesting about william dusenbury's contribution to this scholarship is you can kind of tell that historians of slavery weren't quite ready to outright call these operations what they were, right? you know, investment capitalist enterprises, okay, and not everybody is e nam moenamored w new history of slavery, and i would enjoy watchin

>> william hayward, he and polk were at chapel hill together. i read that he was considered one of the most powerful men in congress because of his association with polk. how did -- how did senator hayward feel about the mexican war? do you know? what happened with this? >> i don't know -- >> and also how would polk proceed to north carolina? >> i think it was a democratic state down here generally. and he was well received too. he came back i think for a reunion of his class in chapel hill. but he knew hayward even in washington. and hayward, when hayward decided to leave office, polk tried to talk him out of it. but it seemed like he left office during the war. so i don't know. i would imagine he supported polk. it seemed like all the democrats did. and a lot of the southern wigs did too. . >> you mentioned the battle of buena vista. and santa anna both. what's your assessment of who won the battle of buena vista? and further, why did santa anna there after retreat and go back to mexico city? what do you understand about the military aspects o

if william saw the hand of god in the elections of james k. polk, i'm sure other democrats did as well. thank you. p[ applause ] >> i shall address each of these papers very interesting papers in the sequence in which they were delivered. his project is truly wonderful with a lot of original research. his linking of military history with environmental history. each with uts own tradition and both hugely importants a pelkts of america's 19th century continental expansion. president polk has been studied mostly in relation to warfare compared with environmentalism. i have been involved with that myself and most recently writing a chapter for a volume called america and the just war tradition, which is just now come iing out. it's edited by mark david hall and charles and published by notre dame university press. forgive my littled a investigator there. but professor gunther in his work on president polk's environmental history has caused attention to a side of polk that at first glance seems astonishing. his support for both the new smithsonian insti