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 ...

WE’VE all stayed in nice hotels with your classic beach views – but there are some we visit for their weird factor alone.

From military bases to wildlife refuges, a president who specializes in branding is renaming things to make a point.

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

The belated discovery may help solve the mystery of what led a 22-year-old pilot to plunge to his death in 1943.

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

In November 1911, the French banker Albert Kahn revealed his plans for an undertaking that was global in scale and utopian in ...