Article: manifest destiny

Article: Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in ...
Journal of Social History;  December 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... service. In Army of Manifest Destiny, James M. McCaffrey examines the Mexican War by using the records ... manuscripts and diaries of Mexican War soldiers, as well as ... comparison is warranted. The Mexican War did serve as an initial ...

Article: Soldiers of 'Manifest Destiny'
VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... veterans of the Mexican War returned to an ... battlefield. The Mexican War (1846-1848 ... severe price of"Manifest Destiny," and the vast ... McCaffrey in Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 ...

Encyclopedia entry: Manifest Destiny
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      590 words ... ... turn “manifest destiny” into ... mission. Notions of manifest destiny returned when territorial ... also Gilded Age ; Mexican War ; Spanish‐ ... Albert Weinberg , Manifest Destiny , 1935. Frederick ...

Article: Manifest Destiny or MUSCLE FLEXING?
Cobblestone;  December 1, 2000 ;     614 words ... ... used this idea of manifest destiny to rationalize its ... Mexican government. Manifest destiny was one of the major ... and the U.S.-Mexican War. Many Americans ... historians today see manifest destiny as an aggressive ...

Article: Mexican War
The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      358 words ...00-00-0000 Mexican War Mexican War (1846-48) Sometimes called Mr. Polk's War, the Mexican War put a military seal on President James Polk's MANIFEST DESTINY policy and ended in the transfer ...

Article: Manifest destiny: many 19th-century Americans ...
The New American;  July 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... nation by coining the phrase Manifest Destiny. According to editor John L. O'Sullivan, it was "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent ... Purchase as a result of the Mexican War. "It took American people ...

Article: Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane ...
The Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm ... journalist who coined the phrase 11 manifest destiny" (pp. 60-62). Hudson argues ... All Mexico" during the U.S.-Mexican War, some have credited her with leading ...