Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century belief in the United States that Americans were destined by divine providence to expand ...

But when Trump talks about Canada, Greenland and Panama, he also taps into manifest destiny's source code — the Monroe Doctrine, first espoused by President James Monroe in 1823 as a warning to ...

Trump offered a predictable explanation for his desire to seize Greenland and the canal: They are needed “for economic security.” Security (geopolitical rather than economic) was one of the ...

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States of America (1901-1909), in the uniform of a lieutenant-colonel of the Rough Riders, a volunteer cavalry unit which he led during the ...

Chances are you haven't heard the term "manifest destiny" since high school history class. ... James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States serving from 1845 to 1849.