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The Christian understanding of Manifest Destiny profoundly influenced missions to Native Americans, shaping both missionary actions and attitudes toward indigenous peoples.

The concept of Manifest Destiny, the 19th-century doctrine suggesting that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across North America, was frequently justified through selective ...

The term “manifest destiny” was coined in 1845 by a journalist, John L. O’Sullivan, to assert America’s right to annex Texas and the Oregon Territory.

Polk is remembered as the president who systematically and aggressively pursued the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, a term first introduced by journalist John O’Sullivan in 1845. O’Sullivan believed in ...

Interestingly, Trump’s claim to take over Gaza reminded me of “Manifest Destiny,” a term coined by John L. O’Sullivan in his 1845 essay in the New York Morning News.

The term “Manifest Destiny” was first coined in 1845 by an American journalist and future propagandist for the Southern Confederacy named John L. O’Sullivan in support of annexing the ...

The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of Texas and looking ahead to California — then part of Mexico — as being the next.

A decade later, in the July–August 1845 issue of the Democratic Review, editor John L. O’Sullivan published an unsigned article about the annexation of Texas.

James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States serving from 1845 to 1849. The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of ...