U.S. President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe. But William McKinley is best remembered as being one of the four presidents that was assassinated.

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

The Alaskan mountain was named for William McKinley in 1896, the year before he became president. McKinley was assassinated in 1901. The name stood more than a century until former President Obama ...

Cassidy Randall is the author of “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali.” ...

Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...

Since President William McKinley’s once-upon-a-time mediocrity ... he won the presidency in 1896 thanks to the influence of Mark Hanna, a wealthy industrialist — the 19th-century equivalent ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.

Undeterred, he was soon elected governor of Ohio, and in 1896, president of the United ... Eight days later, President William McKinley died. He was 58. The public response was the equivalent ...