Each time Trump hints at taking over a territory, he taps into an American myth synonymous with violence and self-righteous entitlement: Manifest Destiny. Early in the nineteenth century ...

McKinley sent U.S. troops into Cuba into 1898 and then, at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, justified the taking of the Spanish Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico with the argument that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age ... he conflated a vast and sometimes confusing array of national imagery from across the centuries to make his larger ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of... What does Trump mean when he invokes America's ...

Donald Trump’s vision of America goes back to the 19th century and includes the imperial policies of the time. He has touted the vision of manifest destiny for the expansion of the United States.