John Hubers

America owes part of its national identity to powerful myths that arose out of its early history. Some of these myths are attached to founding "fathers," others to the experience of nation building.Perhaps the most powerful myth is the one that developed out of the frontier experience of an emerging nation. Manifest destiny is how historians label it, a belief that the settlement and taming of this vast, largely uninhabited land by European colonialists was divinely ordained. Here's how the…