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

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

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the country thrived in the 1890s, when tariffs were high, but historians say ...

Trump, who has renamed North America’s highest peak Mount McKinley in his honor and announced a series of his own tariffs on imports, has frequently praised McKinley since taking office and ...

"In 1917, the country officially honored President McKinley through the naming of North America’s highest peak. Yet after nearly a century, President Obama’s administration, in 2015 ...

Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe. But William McKinley is best remembered as being one of the four presidents that was assassinated.

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.