manifest destiny

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Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

The power of a relic isn’t in its aesthetics but in its narrative — and this unremarkable domestic object holds within it the story of Manifest Destiny overlaid with Didion’s trenchant counternarrative.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Thomas Jefferson was the writer of the Declaration of Independence and our third president, but through his famed Louisiana Purchase he also became, arguably, a founder of the United States’ belief in Manifest Destiny.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2022

Trinidad Gonzales, a history professor at South Texas College, said the pamphlet aggrandizes Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers had the God-given right to expand across North America.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022

For example, many school textbooks uncritically accept the ideas expressed in the Doctrine of Discovery, Jefferson’s statement on expansion, and Manifest Destiny.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz