Polk’s Mexican War

The 1846–48 Mexican War redrew the political map of North America, effectively destroying Mexico as a powerful nation and bringing California and the Southwest into the United States. To many contemporaries the conflict seemed a justifiable expression of American “Manifest Destiny.” Modern commentators have been less kind. In her 2012 book, A Wicked War: Polk, …

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