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 ...

In late 2023, the United States underwent a massive expansion in territory. Its boundaries grew by approximately one million square kilometres – an area about twice the size of California – all ...

Painting entitled 'American Progress', by John Gast, depicting 'Manifest Destiny' (the religious belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in the ...

This relatively simple photograph of a fire in the desert depicts the continuation of ideas of Manifest Destiny in the United States. Misrach reveals a firsthand account of how the government was ...

An estimated 62.1 million U.S. Latinos constitute the nation’s largest ethnic group. Never a homogenous population, Latinos in the United States now face the dual reality of being excluded from ...

WHEN President George W Bush made his Inauguration Speech advancing his weltanschauung — his vision of an ideal world where democracy reigns supreme — many felt unce ...

‘Manifest destiny’ has long been a favorite catch-phrase with political rhapsodists in the United States, and a rare Fourth-of-July orator is he who feels that it can add nothing to his ...

Manifest destiny, he said, “was the belief that the United States was destined to promote democracy & free enterprise across North America.” Read: The outdated language of space travel ...