Manifest Destiny
The mid-1840s were years of extraordinary territorial growth for the United States, a period in which the national domain increased by 1.2 million square miles, a gain of more than si...
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Throughout the history of the nation, the United States and its citizens have never been satisfied with what they have. During the mid-nineteenth century, this was especially the case. The idea of Man...
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"It is manifest destiny." Said President William McKinley when questioned on his annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. Manifest Destiny was the term used to describe some Americans' beliefs that God or...
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"Manifest Destiny" was a phrase first introduced by John L. O'Sullivan in 1845. This term refers to the belief that Americans had the God given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. From 1...
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Manifest Destiny was a dream of expansion, a belief that it was destiny that Americans would spread westward. After the war of 1812 Americans were confident and had a strong sense of nationalism. T...
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John Lewis O'Sullivan, an intelligent writer, once stated that the young nation of the United States of America could be transformed into "an Empire of Liberty, stretching from Atlantic to Pacific." ...
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Why does an old Jehovah’s Witness warehouse on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront have virtual golf? Why is Starbucks moving into Riverdale; why are 41 realtors moving into Williamsburg in Janua...
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On Oct. 12, the Los Angeles Times announced a new addition to its opinion page. “We were looking for more people who were local,” op-ed editor Nicholas Goldberg said two weeks later by ...
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On Oct. 12, the Los Angeles Times announced a new addition to its opinion page. “We were looking for more people who were local,” op-ed editor Nicholas Goldberg said two weeks later by ...
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Stillmatic, released last year amid a flurry of controversy, was a triumph, redeeming Nas’s waning street credibility. But his latest, more mature album, God’s Son, goes further than th...
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Two quarterbacks. Two vastly different backgrounds. One, a star almost since birth who planned to live out his own personal manifest destiny in the Orange Bowl on Tuesday night. The other, a former...
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Dili (dpa) - Jose Ramos Horta, drafted to be East Timor's interim
prime minister when anarchy threatened a year ago, said last week he
hoped a peaceful presidential election...
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A bit of inspirational vision from Thomas Jefferson. A dose of national supremacy from James Monroe. Theodore Roosevelt's bully pulpit, Ronald Reagan's folksy charm and Bill Clinton's empathy. Add ...
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Bandit Russell Crowe and posse volunteer Christian Bale wage a war of wills on the trail in "3:10 to Yuma." Outlaw Brad Pitt is done in by starry-eyed admirer Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of...
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Many have discussed whether certain candidates have "fire in the belly." What I'm wondering is whether, at this point in our national history, conservatives in general have fire in their bellies.Gi...
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From Albert Bierstadt's 19th-century landscapes to Ansel Adams' famous photographs, the images of the Sierra's Yosemite Valley tell as much about the culture and history of the expansion of the Ame...
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny in the 1840s
Manifest Destiny in the Outer Boroughs
