The term "Manifest Destiny" was coined in 1845 by magazine editor John L. O'Sullivan, who wrote about the annexing of Texas and the supposed inevitability of American expansion.

Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century belief in the United States that Americans were destined by divine providence to expand ...

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 ...

Manifest Destiny was "a belief on the part of some Americans, in a particular moment in American history, that God intended ...

Manifest destiny is a call to domination and erasure, a justification for the nation’s most brutal expansions. And it’s the message Trump led with on the first day of his second term.

The specific changes — to Manifest Destiny, World War II, Ronald Reagan and European settlement — inspired so much backlash that the College Board’s committee in charge of rewriting it, ...

Manifest Destiny was the notion that white colonial expansion across North America was ordained by a higher power. As a noun, a manifest is a passenger list for a boat or a plane.

Russell Lee, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Construction work on face of the dam, 6/1/1942, 1942, Library of Congress reprint on Agfa Portriga paper, de Saisset Museum permanent collection, ...