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

William McKinley, the 25th president ... Federico Rios for The New York Times It is an unlikely restoration for an American president whose little-noted but highly consequential time in office ...

The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The ...

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

Political cartoonists “loved to depict Populists as marching peasants wearing liberty caps” and the New York Sun called Bryan “William Jacobin Bryan.” In the end, McKinley won handily ...

President Donald Trump has thrust the 25th U.S. president (1897-1901) back into the spotlight, restoring his name to the ...

Alaska's top lawmakers oppose Trump's plan to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, advocating for the name that honors the ...

"The golden age of America begins right now." When he made this proclamation in his inaugural address on Monday, January 20, Donald Trump was referring to a period he has a fondness for.

But in 1897, a gold prospector and admirer of William McKinley—a president-elect at the time—dubbed the mountain “Mount McKinley” in an article published by The New York Sun newspaper ...

The move, the 47th president says, will ‘restore the name of a great president’ to ‘Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.’ ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...