Or Abraham Lincoln. Even Calvin Coolidge. But William McKinley? President Donald Trump has thrust the 25th U.S. president (1897-1901) back into the spotlight, restoring his name to the continent ...

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

Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an unthinkable scale ...

It’s OK. But it would have been very much better.” The desire to recreate that era is fueled by Trump's fondness for tariffs and his admiration for the nation’s 25th president, William McKinley, a ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders in his second term was reverting the name of Alaska's highest peak, Denali, ...

The president seems bent on taking America back ... he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected to the ...

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

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

The 25th president used reciprocity to press for an expansion of trade. The 47th is going backward.