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

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a ...

Growing up in the iron-producing region of eastern Ohio in the 1840s, future president William ... picture,” Douglas Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College who has studied McKinley ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders in his second term was reverting the name of Alaska's highest peak, Denali, to Mount McKinley. But there's already a Mount McKinley of sorts, in ...

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 ...

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...