(President James K Polk 1860 (Photo ... Might Trump do as Polk did and find a pretext to send U.S. forces into Mexico? One hundred and eighty years after Manifest Destiny had its vogue, Trump ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural ... This belief, adopted by President James K. Polk, dismissed the sovereignty of Mexico and Indigenous ...

When you think of James Polk ... Might Trump do as Polk did and find a pretext to send U.S. forces into Mexico? One hundred and eighty years after Manifest Destiny had its vogue, Trump is back ...

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 ...

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Several readers and other commentators (including Jonathan ...

U.S. expansionist goals historically stem from the concept of “Manifest Destiny,” which some founding ... what are now three states. President James Polk won his 1844 election using the ...