Puerto Rico. Guam. The U.S. Virgin Islands. American Samoa. The Northern Mariana Islands. Today these unincorporated ...

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...

However, the idea of Manifest Destiny existed well before it was put into writing with that explicit term. Simply put, it means that North America comes under the dominion of the United States.