When John O'Sullivan wrote in 1845, "...the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us

Examining how the belief in divinely ordained expansionism outlined the course of American history, a historian examines the consequences of this idea more than

American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism i

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive,"

This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed in