"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. - Tarnished president honored ... A portrait of president ...

Manifest Destiny was intertwined with the belief that the US was culturally superior and had a mission to spread democratic ...

In 1803, President Jefferson wrote a letter to then-Tennessee political leader Andrew Jackson, advising him to convince Indians to sell their “useless” forests to the U.S. government and ...

James K. Polk. One author notes, “Manifest Destiny touched the issues of religion, money, race, patriotism and morality. These clashed in the 1840s as a truly great drama of regional conflict.” ...

Son of Destiny. The author of this historical novel, Mary C. Francis, regrets that adequate justice has never been done to her hero, Andrew Jackson, by the biographers.

Nearly 200 years after his death, Andrew Jackson is stepping away from the United States' cultural consciousness. Jackson will soon no longer appear on the front of the $20 bill, capping a decades ...

A portrait of president Andrew Jackson (1829-37), whose Indian Removal Act spurred what modern historians have in retrospect called the ethnic cleansing or genocide of the tribes, now hangs in the ...

When President James K. Polk was elected, however, he supported the Manifest Destiny doctrine, which said that the U.S.’s destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean. MPI/Archive photos via Getty ...