The 25th president used reciprocity to press for an expansion of trade. The 47th is going backward.

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a ...

A little history can be a bad thing, and President Donald Trump’s little glimpse of history appears to be limited to the 1897 ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ago until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan because of McKinley’s love affair with ...

Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount ...

Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe. But William McKinley is best remembered as being one of the four presidents that was assassinated.

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?