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

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

Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...

It was Nov. 3, 1896, and the former Ohio Governor was on his way to becoming America’s 25th president. The 53-year-old ...

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 ...

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...

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 Republican who was in office from 1897 until ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...