Puerto Rico. Guam. The U.S. Virgin Islands. American Samoa. The Northern Mariana Islands. Today these unincorporated ...

Not using such US-centric and colonisation/genocide-invoking historical metaphors would be a better start,’ British scholar ...

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...

Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent, shaping US policies and contributing to events like the Louisiana Purchase, Texas annexation, and the Mexican ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Several readers and other commentators (including Jonathan ...

Add a new territory to the board. After expressing his desire to claim Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal, President ...

“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on planet Mars,” he said. Trump’s comments sparked an enthusiastic response ...