Are Donald Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland serious or just grandiose bluster? As an historian, I take their ...

editor John L. O’Sullivan published an unsigned article about the annexation of Texas. It was in this article that the phrase “manifest destiny” first appeared in public. The article spoke ...

The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of Texas and looking ahead to California — then part of Mexico — as being the next.

James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States serving from 1845 to 1849. The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly raised the specter of annexing Canada since his inauguration to a second term as president. The ...

For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history.   It was also historically pivotal ...

(Another Polk promise, by the way: reducing import tariffs.) The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of Texas and looking a ...

At first, Canadians just shook their collective heads when United States President Donald Trump suggested Canada become the 51st American state. They rolled their eyes when he posted a fake image of ...