The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

A true merit-based system ensures equal opportunity for all, uniform standards, the absence of favoritism and a commitment to ...

William Howard Taft is the only person to serve as both U.S. president and Supreme Court Chief Justice during his career. The ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

The 25th president came to support them only as a means to trade reciprocity.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

But as a political leader, Trump has a different reason to idolize McKinley: The twice-elected Republican from Ohio realigned U.S. politics and installed the GOP as the dominant party for more than a ...

To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

President Trump is moving to change the name of Alaska’s tallest peak back to McKinley. Some 95% of respondents to our ...

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 ...