Born Feb. 14, 1812, Columbus has gone from a simple settlement to Ohio’s largest city in its 213 years. Franklinton, named for Benjamin Franklin, was the first permanent settlement in central Ohio, ...

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

Republican support for the bill may be scarce because it requires defying a Trump order. He wants to revert to the name Mount ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

President Trump likes to remember William McKinley's tariffs as a triumph. The reality is far more complicated.

Senior Katie Howell explores the issues with the recent executive order to change Denali’s name back to Mount McKinley.

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan ...

President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the ...

Sometime this spring at a date still to be announced, the United States Mint will strike and release a 1-ounce silver medal recognizing the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley.

Former President Barack Obama ordered it changed in 2015 from its previous name “McKinley,” which was a tribute to President William McKinley, designated in the late 19th century by a gold prospector.