WASHINGTON, D. C. - When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office changing the name of the highest peak in North America from Denali to Mount McKinley, he ...

President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, by Robert W. Merry (Simon & Schuster, 624 pp., $35). H ow is history made—by great figures, mastering the currents of the era, or in a more ...

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

Terms: 1897-1901 Political Party: Republican First Lady: Ida Saxton McKinley Vice President: Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt. Overview Born: January 29, 1843, in Niles, Ohio... McKinley, an ...

IRWIN: A lot of people, including President Trump, think that the strong manufacturing economy was due to the McKinley tariff, but actually, the 1890s was not a good decade for the U.S. economy.

McKinley, 123 years after his assassination, often ranks as an above average but not spectacular president in presidential rankings. For Trump, McKinley ranks high because of his love of tariffs.

WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to take America back to what he considers the good old days: the 1800s. He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K ...

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?

President Trump is pledging to restore the name of President McKinley, his model on tariff policy, to North America’s tallest mountain. It’s a move he promised in 2015 — one that will please Ohioans ...

Trump also said he wants to reverse President Obama's decision to rename Mt. Denali, the highest peak in North America, back to Mt. McKinley after the 25th president.

An undated photo of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States. He was inaugurated in 1897, and again in 1901 just prior to being assassinated on Sept. 6, 1901.