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

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 ...

A young child managed to slip through the fencing outside the White House and was intercepted by armed U.S. Secret Service ...

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 ...

McKinley during his White House years. McKinley was not that kind of visionary. “Ah, you may be sure,” the president told the prominent anti-imperialist Carl Schurz, “there will be no jingo ...

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

As the nation entered the industrial age during a time of economic depression, William McKinley felt protective tariffs were the key to a bright financial future — and voters agreed with him. It was ...

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.