Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump invoked the controversial doctrine, originally used to justify American ...

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 ...

The Department of Homeland Security stood by a social media post the agency made last week of an oil painting that incited online debate over Manifest Destiny - a 19th century concept that has been ...

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 ...