Johnson agreed, and a painting of the 11th president ... in the White House that he admired Polk, a champion of “manifest ...

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

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 ...

Chances are you haven't heard the term "manifest destiny" since high school history class. That is until President Trump's inaugural address last month, when he used it to call for America to ...

Each time Trump hints at taking over a territory, he taps into an American myth synonymous with violence and self-righteous entitlement: Manifest Destiny. Early in the nineteenth century ...

Trump wants to carry out another “manifest destiny” —but this time on Mars.. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and ...

McKinley sent U.S. troops into Cuba into 1898 and then, at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, justified the taking of the Spanish Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico with the argument that ...

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,” he said. President Trump vows in his inaugural ...

"We will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars," he said, promising to send astronauts to plant the American flag on Mars. Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and Trump ally, was seated behind the ...