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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. See how those policies affected everyday Americans in ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.