Manifest Destiny 
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SOURCE: Public Books
2/9/2021
The Never-Ending Frontier?
by Karl Jacoby
Karl Jacoby reviews Benjamin Hopkins's "Ruling the Savage Periphery" and traces a history of practices of imperial control from the American conquest of Native peoples, through the British Empire, to the 19-year-old US war in Afghanistan.
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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.
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