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George A. Crofutt, American Progress, c1873 (Library of Congress)

Ideas about America - Selected Internet Resources

John L. O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity," The United States Democratic Review, Volume 6, Issue 23 (1839), 426-430.  (excerpt)

Michael T. Lubragge, Manifest Destiny, From Revolution to Reconstruction - and what happened afterwards (Dept. of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen).

Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History, " in The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1921), hypertext posted on American Studies, University of Virginia.

Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), New Perspectives on the West, PBS (1996).

"American Platform of Principles," The True American's Almanac and Politician's Manual for 1857 (New York: 1857), hypertext posted at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.

Articles selected from UML library databases

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Chiodo, John J.  "Teaching about Manifest Destiny: Clarifying the Concept.". The Social Studies 91.5, Sept 2000, p203.

Dallal, Jenine Abboushi.  "American Imperialism UnManifest: Emerson's "Inquest" and Cultural Regeneration." American Literature, Volume 73, Number 1, March 2001, pp. 47-83.

Rathbun, Lyon.  "The Debate over Annexing Texas and the Emergence of Manifest Destiny." Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Volume 4, Number 3, Fall 2001, pp. 459-493.

Andrew Melrose, Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way, 1867.