Manifest Destiny

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Trump Made it Manifestly Clear: The Discussion of National Destiny is Ongoing

  by G.W. Gibson

  We can take heart that our country and our discipline have come a long way from the nadir and Frederick Jackson Turner. Somewhere between Teddy Roosevelt and Colin Kaepernick, we have managed to pick up a few yards as Americans and as American Historians.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  It is Time to Reconsider the Global Legacy of July 4, 1776

  by Elizabeth Kolsky

  American independence unleashed a hemispheric conquest by the United States and a renewed commitment to empire by Great Britain. Both projects relied on racism, violence, and the devaluing of black and indigenous lives. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/17/2020
  

  The West Is Relevant to Our Long History Of Anti-Blackness, Not Just The South

  by Walter Johnson

  The Missouri Compromise paved the path to the Civil War. But it also signaled what would follow: western settlement driven by the idea of expanding a country of, by, and for white men.

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• SOURCE: The Michigan Daily
  2-5-16
  

  Juan Cole says America’s inclination to turn to the military started with Manifest Destiny

  The new frontier of today is no longer the American Southwest but the Middle East, Cole believes.