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

There is an echo of McKinley’s spirit and Roosevelt’s strategy in the early Trump White House. For a president who said that ...

Challenges: Questions of bimetallism backing the currency haunted William McKinley during his first term. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, McKinley was a forceful and effective commander-in-chief ...

Trump's declarative re-mounting of McKinley begins not with the 25th president's performance as "Tariff Man," but rather with ...

However, by 1898, U.S. public opinion, rallied by sensationalist journalist William Randolph Hearst, demanded intervention, and McKinley capitulated. In April 1898, President McKinley abandoned ...

Spain's brutal suppression of revolutionaries in Cuba motivated Congress, with McKinley's support, to pass a war resolution in 1898 with an amendment that guaranteed Cuba's eventual independence.

The Trump administration ended legal protection for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the US, making them eligible for ...

“Aloha, Hawaii,” wrote the Honolulu Independent on July 14, 1898, after Congress passed the Newlands Resolution annexing the islands. “The Hawaiians as a nation have ceased to exist.” China was also ...

It was, of course, McKinley who seized the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico as the spoils of that war when it ended in 1898, back in the day when the United States called them “colonies ...

All three, Trump, Mckinley and Roosevelt, stand out for advancing US interests aggressively. But McKinley appears to have ...

McKinley’s tariff legislation also unintentionally helped spark the 1898 Spanish-American War, according to Irwin. Part of the legislation involved eliminating tariffs on sugar imports ...