The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

As a clergy person who has served congregations in the Black and of-color communities in Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

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

The desire to recreate that era is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. Experts warn he’s overestimating the role of ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal mountaineering moments. This is Part 2, the story of one of the worst tragedies ever on a ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...

In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.

President Obama restored the peak’s Indigenous name in 2015 ... President Trump ordered that the mountain be renamed Mount McKinley in January 2025. But Alaskans and climbers have already ...