Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century belief in the United States that Americans were destined by divine providence to expand their territory across the North American continent. The term was coined ...

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 president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

The Panama Canal, Greenland, Canada, Gaza. Each time Trump hints at taking over a territory, he taps into an American myth synonymous with violence and self-righteous entitlement: Manifest Destiny ...

Trump Uses Inauguration to Vow New Frontier in Manifest Destiny. Malcolm Ferguson. Mon, January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM UTC. 1 min read.

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 ...

And yet, here we are, in a time when a cursory glance of the day’s news calls that ideology of Manifest Destiny to mind: The Gulf of America. Canada, the would-be 51st state. The Panama Canal ...

Manifest Destiny also positioned America as uniquely chosen to propagate democracy, liberty, and Christianity, rooted in biblical passages like Matthew 5:14-16 (“You are the light of the world ...

“Manifest destiny” was the violent, presumptuous 19th century idea that white American settlers had some religious obligation to seize Native land in the West, ...