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“What Daniel does is very interesting. He looks at what became of Manifest Destiny after the U.S.-Mexico War, after the United States not only annexed Texas, but took an enormous chunk of territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. From our point of view, we tend to want more order in the past than there really was. So we will say: ‘Well, there was this moment of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s, and then it was done.’ But people didn’t immediately know it was done. There was a lot of talk about what would happen next—if they were going to keep taking on new land.” Read more...
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