A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

The research reveals the chilling truth about the impact of nuclear tests across the U.S., painting a picture of widespread ...

According to the latest Current Population Survey, about 8.3 percent of households (10.9 million) reported moving over the ...

I know what you’re thinking. America made a wrong turn with Donald Trump, driving our destiny into darkness. But there’s reason to believe Trump is what we’re all about, right from the start ...

But it is the history of U.S. antagonism, with its roots in manifest destiny and President Polk’s obsession with territorial expansion, that Mexicans best remember. In 1845, the U.S. annexed ...

That same year, the United States annexed Hawaii, firmly establishing itself as a dominant maritime power. Today, former President Donald Trump has floated the idea of incorporating Canada as the 51st ...

And yet, here we are, in a time when a cursory glance of the day’s news calls that ideology of Manifest Destiny to mind: The Gulf of America. Canada, the would-be 51st state. The Panama Canal ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision of America includes the imperial policies of the 19th century. He has touted the vision of ‘manifest destiny’ for the expansion of the United States ...

Manifest Destiny. In threatening hefty tariffs on Canada, Trump cited the flow of fentanyl over the Canada-U.S. border, but it was clear it had little to do with fentanyl, particularly since so ...

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 ...

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.