When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe. But William McKinley is best remembered as being one of the four presidents that was assassinated.

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

I would like to share a story from the Navajo, whose ancestral lands are Arizona and New Mexico. For years, the Navajo had ...

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?

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.

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...

President Trump idealizes the Gilded Age, emphasizing high tariffs and low interest rates to stimulate the economy. He ...

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 ...