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Manifest Destiny

Here are entered works on the nineteenth century belief that the United States was destined, or divinely ordained, to expand its territory across the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Political messianism -- United States
• United States -- Territorial expansion

• Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1963), by Frederick Merk, contrib. by Lois Bannister Merk (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1963), by Frederick Merk, contrib. by Lois Bannister Merk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• American Imperialism: The Convocation Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Twenty-Seventh Convocation of the University of Chicago (1899), by Carl Schurz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Party and the Great Republic: The United States of North America, One Government and One National Language From Panama to the Arctic Pole (ca. 1915), by John A. Wyeth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Documents Illustrating The Territorial Development of the United States, 1584-1774 (American history leaflets constitutional and colonial #16; New York: A. Lovell and Co., 1894), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Great Republic: The United States of North America, One Flag and One Language From the Colombia-Panama Boundary to the Arctic Pole (c1916), by John A. Wyeth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Opposition of the South to the Development of Oregon and of Washington Territory: The Interests of the West (1859), by Republican Association of Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Path of Empire: A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power, by Carl Russell Fish (Gutenberg text)
• The Romance of American Expansion (New York: Moffat, Yard, and Co., 1909), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• America Contradicts Herself: The Story of Our Foreign Policy (Headline Books #7, reprinted second edition; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1939), by Ryllis Alexander Goslin and William T. Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• America Contradicts Herself: The Story of Our Foreign Policy (Headline Books #7; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1936), by Ryllis Alexander Goslin and William T. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 (Utica, NY: Press of L. C. Childs and Son, c1899), by Arthur Bird
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Buckskin Brigade (c1947), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Book Trails Winding Westward (v7 of the Book Trails series; Chicago: Shepard and Lawrence, c1928), ed. by Renée B. Stern and Muriel Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pacific Historical Review (partial serial archives)

• The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912 (4 parts in 7 volumes; Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993-2007), by Robert M. Kvasnicka (page images at HathiTrust)