The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...

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

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said repeatedly, “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913.

President Donald Trump has mentioned former President and Ohioan William McKinley when discussing tariffs. Trump calls him ...

William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump ...

Remembering William McKinley Since President William ... The Working Men Are with Us.” (Sound familiar?) As president from 1897 to 1901, McKinley enacted record-high tariffs and used the brief ...

U.S. President Grover Cleveland was in office during a pivotal time in Hawaiian history and whose legacy, is still being ...

The president ... McKinley’s time and our own. Further, McKinley didn’t display the kind of expansionist zeal or martial fervor that would correspond to Trump’s call for the U.S. acquisition ...

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.