William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump ...

The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...

President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the last ...

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

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

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

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

A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager has been released from a Utah jail. The move Thursday came ...

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

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 Expansionism is outdated.

Reciprocal trade policy as envisioned by President William McKinley, whom Mr. Trump often cites as his role model, recognized that by the dawn of the 20th century America had emerged as an ...