President McKinley took the train to Niagara Falls on Sept. 6, 1901. He viewed the Niagara Gorge, crossed part-way over the Honeymoon Bridge (staying on the U.S. side of the border) and traveled over ...

The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Trump’s ...

Donald Trump has a special affinity for William McKinley, the former American president who was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in 1901, ending his second term before it really ...

This kind of whiplash foreign policy isn’t new,” one historian said. “Many presidents have changed course on foreign policy — sometimes dramatically.” ...

President Donald Trump and his supporters have heralded his use of tariff threats to extract concessions on drug trafficking and border security from Canada and Mexico. Yet, experts say, some of the ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

W hy has Donald Trump become an ardent admirer of a predecessor most Americans know little or nothing about? “President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and t ...

During Bush’s first term, Rove seemed to have a good chance of achieving his goal. The president’s resolute response to the ...

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. We ...

To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...