The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.

Including some 15 million people, 8 million square miles, over the span of 401 years and counting, the genocide committed against the Native Americans is unprecedented in both size, scope, and ...

As conservation and sustainability continue to become increasingly prominent in society, our understanding of how humanity has impacted the natural world over time has revealed a tragic past yet to be ...

In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United States from sea to shining sea. Polk maintained a “keen ability to balance the diverse desires of the nation while ...

Some people coin phrases. Journalist John L. O’Sullivan minted one this week (Dec. 27) in 1845 when he wrote in The Democratic Review that it was America’s “manifest destiny to overspread and to ...

Go West, Young Podcast is now The Landscape—still all about America’s public lands and the outdoors, but now without the play on words that referenced Manifest Destiny and America’s legacy of Native ...

Invoking language such as “manifest destiny” sends a signal about who belongs in America’s future in space and who doesn’t. In mentioning manifest destiny, Trump has resurrected an idea most commonly ...