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

President Donald Trump recently invoked "manifest destiny" to outline a bold vision for America's space program. But what ...

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

"Manifest destiny," a phrase Donald Trump used Monday as he promised to take the Panama Canal, is a call to domination and ...

"Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our ...

Trump’s Mars pledge elicited a huge grin and enthusiastic double thumbs up from billionaire and top Mars colonization ...

“WE WILL PURSUE OUR MANIFEST DESTINY,” declared Donald Trump in his inaugural address, not only here on Earth but “into the ...

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn ...

There was a messianic fervor in Trump’s Second Inaugural speech that wasn’t evident eight years ago. As dark as the 2016 ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in ...

President Donald Trump declared the U.S. will be pursuing its destiny by planting the American flag on Mars, much to ...

“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on planet ...