https://www.christopherjclement.com/staffpicks daily 0.75 2026-06-11 https://www.christopherjclement.com/staffpicks/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-67tfc-8d9nk monthly 0.5 2026-06-11 https://www.christopherjclement.com/home daily 1.0 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/f6cc2345-346a-41d8-a618-722abca5ffe5/Manifest+Destiny+Book+Cover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/fa5c22a9-2d95-4cf9-aaaf-90cb66e45c6f/Copilot_20260610_091021.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/543abd3e-fea9-485a-81e5-c87a64392caa/Copilot_20260610_093059.png https://www.christopherjclement.com/about daily 0.75 2026-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/a6975662-144b-444d-8bed-922c663a8132/Chris+Clement+-+Deep+Run+HS.jpg https://www.christopherjclement.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/da6e277e-cee3-4b21-91c0-0b31d1fafea9/Manifest+Destiny+Book+Cover.jpg https://www.christopherjclement.com/prologue daily 0.75 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/e1ad30ef-b230-4266-bb23-1d0b844575e3/Designer+%281%29.jpg https://www.christopherjclement.com/roster daily 0.75 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/fffb9fd5-ed7c-4b1c-8785-89d4d369bb0b/Jerseys.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/0d0561d2-cf71-4186-b936-d6819407cdc5/Updated+Alyson+Collage.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/2560de0d-32e0-4588-b76f-12f98754e88a/Designer+%281%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/bb779fa6-4c48-49d2-9d45-b52927a71907/Fracture.jpg https://www.christopherjclement.com/events daily 0.75 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/99e381b7-b585-48aa-a915-67313aff7505/Maniest+Destiny+Logo.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/2626abbb-2027-455d-ba54-ef8186001bf6/New+Announce.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/a3eae206-a2da-4401-8b28-8edf4a9f6e94/NOVA.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/536077a7-4751-4cff-8043-d01d623f5b6d/Designer+%281%29.png https://www.christopherjclement.com/what-is-manifest-destiny daily 0.75 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/18eb036b-ead6-4553-b981-30c4051b36e7/Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_Westward_the_Course_of_Empire_Takes_Its_Way1-1000x500.jpg What is Manifest Destiny? Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1862. Mural, United States Capitol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/cc511509-9a12-43f8-a98c-577e9931023c/American_progress-1000x760.jpg What is Manifest Destiny? Artistic propaganda like this promoted the national project of manifest destiny. Columbia, the female figure of America, leads Americans into the West and into the future by carrying the values of republicanism (as seen through her Roman garb) and progress (shown through the inclusion of technological innovations like the telegraph) and clearing native peoples and animals, seen being pushed into the darkness. John Gast, American Progress, 1872. Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/75a2c6c6-9a71-44c1-a7fa-058f11473d01/Entrance-into-Mexico-City-e1469978641139.jpg What is Manifest Destiny? “General Scott’s entrance into Mexico.” Lithograph. 1851. Originally published in George Wilkins Kendall & Carl Nebel, The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of all the Principal Conflicts (New York: D. Appleton), 1851. Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/3136ea37-0e09-44cb-8297-3f739a1ba71f/Bierstadt_Albert_Oregon_Trail-1000x666.jpg What is Manifest Destiny? The great environmental and economic potential of the Oregon Territory led many to pack up their families and head west along the Oregon Trail. The Trail represented the hopes of many for a better life, represented and reinforced by images like Bierstadt’s idealistic Oregon Trail. Albert Bierstadt, Oregon Trail (Campfire), 1863. Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a2957caaebe834a80821a9b/1b0665ce-59f6-4c1e-8f81-32afedc4fcfc/Maniest+Destiny+Logo.png