According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

President Donald Trump has thrust the 25th U.S. president (1897-1901) back into the spotlight, restoring his name to the ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also has shown an affinity with some of the fattest cats of all.

The White House said Trump's tariff order also includes a mechanism to escalate the rates if the countries retaliate against ...

6, 1901, by anarchist Leon Czolgosz as the president was greeting visitors at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz, an American laborer, shot McKinley twice in the abdomen ...

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the ...

But as a political leader, Trump has a different reason to idolize McKinley: The twice-elected Republican from Ohio realigned U.S. politics and installed the GOP as the dominant party for more than a ...

To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

Trump's declarative re-mounting of McKinley begins not with the 25th president's performance as "Tariff Man," but rather with ...