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

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

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

A true merit-based system ensures equal opportunity for all, uniform standards, the absence of favoritism and a commitment to ...

President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of ...

The fact check team is Kate Sinclair, Mary Marge Locker, and Michelle Harris. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta, Kristina ...

One of President Donald Trump’s first executive actions upon reentering the White House was to reestablish its most famous ...

The Secret Service is one of the country’s oldest federal investigative agencies, founded in 1865 to stop counterfeiters. There are approximately 3,200 special agents and an additional 1,300 uniformed ...

Churchill once implied that history would be kind to him because “I propose to write that history myself.” As we know from ...

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of ...

We may be seeing the beginning of the end of the war on history. President Donald Trump issued an executive order restoring ...