As the nation entered the industrial age during a time of economic depression, William McKinley felt protective tariffs were the key to a bright financial future — and voters agreed with him. It was ...

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 ...

For his first term on the Republican ticket, William McKinley ran on a largely pro-gold platform but reserved some possibility for bimetallism. McKinley won his first term in the greatest electoral ...