The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents the country’s past.

The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the ...

Manifest Destiny” is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for ...

Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent, shaping US policies and ...

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at ...