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

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

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

Are Donald Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland serious or just grandiose bluster? As an historian, I take their ...

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 ...

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 ...

McKinley has an outsized and enduring presence in our history. He ordered the annexation of the entire Philippine archipelago after the naval forces of Admiral George Dewey swiftly smashed the Spanish ...

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

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.