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 ...

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.

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

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

William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump ...

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 ...

Reciprocal trade policy as envisioned by President William McKinley, whom Mr. Trump often cites as his role model, recognized that by the dawn of the 20th century America had emerged as an ...

A little history can be a bad thing, and President Donald Trump’s little glimpse of history appears to be limited to the 1897 ...

A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager has been released from a Utah jail. The move Thursday came ...