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 ...

Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an unthinkable scale ...

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

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.

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

President Donald Trump has mentioned former President and Ohioan William McKinley when discussing tariffs. Trump calls him ...

Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs,” President Trump ...

Many of us say we would die for our country. But are we willing to wind up alive in a cage for an even higher principle?