America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe. But William McKinley is best ...

The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.

President Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the country’s highest mountain from Denali to Mount McKinley. Alaskans have thoughts.

Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill to formally change the name of North America's highest peak back to Denali ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation on Thursday to rename North America’s highest mountain “Denali,” after ...

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...

Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali ...

The battle over what to call North America’s highest peak has entered the U.S. Senate as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) ...

Demonstrating bicameral and bipartisan disapproval of Trump’s resurrection of the name Mount McKinley, the state’s Senate on ...

signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley, an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska. He said he planned ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.