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 ...

When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to ...

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.

and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.” But 2025 is not 1898, and Greenland today is not Cuba of McKinley’s day, when a bloody insurrection against Spanish rule there was ...

“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 ...

Invade Mexico, annex Greenland, reclaim the Panama Canal. Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of American imperial ambition ...

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 ...