Undoing Manifest Destiny: Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice

As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion-over the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler America's relations with the Indigenous nations of the United States to ways the land has been commodified as property. It's...