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 ...

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

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say there were other factors.

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

In contrast, Trump has pushed presidential bounds and was a profligate spender in his first term. Another difference: ...

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence ...

He said that McKinley gave a speech in Buffalo, New York, outlining “this concept of reciprocity, which was: I’m prepared to bring down tariffs. Even me. Even William McKinley.” ...

Joe Petrosino is one of the first symbols of Italian-American courage, and remains an icon of the fight against organized ...