by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 22, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Anglo-American, Civil Rights, GI Bill, Manifest Destiny, military integration, Richard White, white identity, World War II
American Progress, by John Gast 1872Manifest Destiny was an idea long before it had a name, and what it was really about was not the “white man’s burden,” but an Anglo-American one, the idea that the arrow of civilization and mantle of world leadership had passed from...