Beginning with the annexation of Texas, which voted to become the 28th state in 1845, Polk aggressively expanded America’s ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of... What does Trump mean when he invokes America's ...

A year after Donald Trump revived Manifest Destiny, expansionist rhetoric has returned to US policy debates, placing ...

Born: November 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina... James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate, laid out his foreign policy and domestic aims early, achieved them in one term and ...

Chances are you haven't heard the term "manifest destiny" since high school history class. That is until President Trump's inaugural address last month, when he used it to call for America to "plant ...