"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. - Tarnished president honored - If Manifest Destiny entwined ...

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

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

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Not long ago, Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term as Republican president of the USA, four years after the end of his ...

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Polk when he ordered General Zachary Taylor to seize disputed territory along the Mexican border with Texas. In the words of ...

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward ...