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Frederick Merk
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Frederick Merk (August 15, 1887 – September 24, 1977) was an American historian. He taught at Harvard University from 1924 to 1956.
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Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extricated itself as well as it could afterward.
Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963) ch. 12, p. 261
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