Born in Ohio, William McKinley served as a top Civil War military aid, studied the law, and became a leader in the temperance movement before he was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1876.

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...

The beloved character actor Stephen McKinley Henderson feels so strongly about his new film, Alex Garland's Civil War, that he speaks in almost existential terms about it. "I can honestly say ...

In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a forceful and effective commander-in ... nor did he intervene for any other civil rights concerns, including voting. In an uprising known now as the ...

Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, Mckinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War. His Open Door policy to China ...

Kern said McKinley first rose to prominence as a Civil War veteran, and an Ohio Republican congressman with a singular focus: tariffs! "That was his jam, man! He just really, really loved tariffs.