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 ...

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 ...

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 ...