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

Mattie’s for-hire lawman/assassin, Rooster Cogburn, is much closer to a hair-trigger Falstaff than the resolute Manifest Destiny hero John Wayne depicted in Henry Hathaway’s 1969 film adaptation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

“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

“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