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

In this superb speculative novel, Spufford imagines that Manifest Destiny hit a roadblock in the Midwest: The region around St. Louis isn’t Missouri and Illinois but Cahokia, ruled by the Native tribe there.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

"We should instead be focused on meaningful restoration of the wetlands that accommodated the needs of sucker and salmon for millennia that were sacrificed on the altar of Manifest Destiny," he said.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 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

For example, many school textbooks uncritically accept the ideas expressed in the Doctrine of Discovery, Jefferson’s statement on expansion, and Manifest Destiny.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz