Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

It was Nov. 3, 1896, and the former Ohio Governor was on his way to becoming America’s 25th president. The 53-year-old ...

It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

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 ...

Cuba wasn’t a mere colony, it was part of my country. Expansionism is outdated.

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...

Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...

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

William McKinley was assassinated by a lone gunman in 1901; Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest in 1912 while campaigning ...

In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs. We had a president, you ...

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what ...