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Manifest Destiny: The True Story of Westward Expansion & Native Expulsion in America explores westward expansion and its impact on Native communities. Even though the phrase ‘manifest destiny’ was not used in print until 1845, the spirit of American expansionism that it referred to was very apparent long before the 1840s. Americans had been talking about pushing westward as if it was their manifest destiny since folks in Jamestown in the 1600s had started eyeing the land where Natives lived. University of Maryland historian Richard Bell will begin by tracking the story of Native expulsion and westward expansion from the Revolution era up through the 1850s, paying particular attention in the second half to how the West and Westward Expansion came to be romanticized in the American imagination.
