A former president from Ohio could play a big role in shaping President Donald Trump's policies. Trump's a fan of President William McKinley, giving the Canton native a major shout-out in his inaugural address. He promised on Monday to rename North America ...

On this day in history, April 20, 1898, President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain. The declaration requested by the 25th U.S. president was in response to an ongoing conflict between Spain and Cuba, the latter located less 100 miles ...

Overall, Trump’s focus on dominating the Western hemisphere represents a profound shift from nearly a century’s-long focus on warding off overseas threats to protect Americans at home. And like it or not, for Trump, security in the second quarter of the 21st century lies in concepts and ideas first developed in the last quarter of the 19th century.

William McKinley gazes straight ahead on the San Francisco monument erected in his honor in 1904, three years after his assassination. He is seemingly unaware of the turf battle taking place inches from his face. The monument to McKinley in the Golden Gate ...

It’s rare to see a sitting president cite William McKinley. America’s 25th commander in chief wasn’t exactly a bad leader, but he was hardly one of the more inspirational ones either. So why did President Donald Trump recently bring him up?

For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.

The mountain, 20,237 feet high, is the tallest in North America and the third highest of the Seven Summits – the tallest peaks on each of the seven continents. It rises 18,735 feet compared to the terrain around it, making it the third-most prominent ...

Ray Rieser Sunday, June 23, 2024 12:01 p.m. | Sunday, June 23, 2024 12:01 p.m. When learning about the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley, one of the things that might have been lost in the details is that his assassin was a former resident ...

In 1910, the William McKinley monument in Cooper Park became one of the first public monuments erected in Dayton. McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, a former governor of Ohio, Ohio representative in Congress and a soldier in the Union Army.

Global markets were in a tailspin on Thursday as policymakers and trade partners expressed dismay over president’s latest trade-war salvo. By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and ...