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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Cuba wasn’t a mere colony, it was part of my country. Expansionism is outdated.

But there's already a Mount McKinley of sorts, in Canton, Ohio, right between I-77 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame: A magnificent mausoleum to our 25th President, William McKinley, entombed ...

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 ...

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

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