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

A Utah judge has ordered the release of a 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager after prosecutors in ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a ...

A little history can be a bad thing, and President Donald Trump’s little glimpse of history appears to be limited to the 1897 ...

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

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.

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ago until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan because of McKinley’s love affair with ...

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?