And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ago until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan because of McKinley’s love affair with ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...

In all of this, Trump is explicitly channeling William McKinley, another president who wielded tariffs with unabashed enthusiasm. Whether he’s mentioning McKinley by name — or restoring his ...

In an effort to help the economy recover following the Civil War ... Ohio representative William McKinley authored the Tariff Act of 1890. Born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio, William McKinley was ...

Since President William McKinley’s once-upon-a-time mediocrity was exceeded only by his present-day obscurity, few observers grasped the real significance of Trump’s remarks. To correct such a ...

Trump has dubbed McKinley the “tariff king.” McKinley referred to himself as “a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.” In 1890, six years before McKinley’s election as president ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant ...