Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States is destined, even divinely ordained,Nicholas Guyatt: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D.: Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis 1885
Lawrence Davidson: Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest Destiny
Rodrigue Tremblay: The myth of Manifest Destiny, Take Two
Judith Snodgrass: Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West
Wilber W. Caldwell: American Narcissism: The Myth of National Superiority
Anders Stephanson: Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes Manifest Destiny was interpreted so widely as to include the eventual absorption of all North America: Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central America. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). Originally a political catch phrase of the 19th century, "Manifest Destiny" eventually became a standard historical term, sometimes used as a synonym for the expansion of the United States across the North American continent which the belief inspired or was used to justify.
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Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States is destined, even divinely ordained,Nicholas Guyatt: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D.: Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis 1885
Lawrence Davidson: Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest Destiny
Rodrigue Tremblay: The myth of Manifest Destiny, Take Two
Judith Snodgrass: Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West
Wilber W. Caldwell: American Narcissism: The Myth of National Superiority
Anders Stephanson: Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes Manifest Destiny was interpreted so widely as to include the eventual absorption of all North America: Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central America. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). Originally a political catch phrase of the 19th century, "Manifest Destiny" eventually became a standard historical term, sometimes used as a synonym for the expansion of the United States across the North American continent which the belief inspired or was used to justify.
The term, which first appeared in print in 1839, was used in 1845 by a New York journalist, John L. O'Sullivan, to urge for the annexation of Texas. Thereafter, it was used to encourage American settlement of European colonial and Indian lands in the Great Plains and the west and, more generally, as a justification of building an American empire. It was revived in the 1890s, this time with Republican supporters, as a theoretical justification for U.S. expansion outside of North America. The term fell out of usage by U.S. policy makers early in the 20th century, but some commentators believe that aspects of Manifest Destiny, particularly the belief in an American "mission" to promote and defend democracy throughout the world, continues to have an influence on American political ideology.
