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

“So much of Manifest Destiny was about settling all these different places,” she said.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023

The emergence of the game of football coincided with the 19th century push into the West beneath the banner of Manifest Destiny, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023

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

“Why do dudes always have to take up as much space as possible on the train? This isn’t Manifest Destiny, man.”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro