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Manifest Destiny

Greenland & the Turner thesis

John Fea   |  January 17, 2025

Is Greenland the new frontier? Is a new “Manifest Destiny” in the air? Are we seeing a revival of historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis?” Some Trump conservatives think so. Here is Ian Ward at Politico: But in the corner […]

The Author’s Corner with Michael Verney

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 1, 2022

Michael Verney is Assistant Professor of History at Drury University. This interview is based on his new book, A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with Daniel Burge

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 13, 2022

Daniel Burge is Associate Editor of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Coordinator of the KHS Research Fellowship Program at the Kentucky Historical Society. This interview is based on his new book, A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse […]

The Author’s Corner with Matthew Dougherty

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 11, 2022

Matthew Dougherty is Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. This interview is based on his book, Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America (University of Oklahoma Press, […]