Challenges: Questions of bimetallism backing the currency haunted William McKinley during his first term. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a forceful and effective commander-in-chief ...

Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, Mckinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War. His Open Door policy to China ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ago until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan because of McKinley’s love affair with ...

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 outcome of the Spanish-American War left the US with a new-found degree of global power and influence. It also presented a dilemma of sorts for President William McKinley. The 1898 Treaty of ...

Born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio, William McKinley was working as a school teacher when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He enlisted in the Union Army and quickly climbed the ranks. After the war ...

New York (CNN) — William ... the Civil War, when tariffs funded nearly the entire federal budget. Excise taxes on items like alcohol made up most of the rest of the revenue in McKinley’s ...

William McKinley was a ... That was actually less than before the Civil War, when tariffs funded nearly the entire federal budget. Excise taxes on items like alcohol made up most of the rest of the ...