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?

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

America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill to formally change the name of North America's highest peak back to Denali ...

Presidents Day was established to honor America’s first president, George Washington, but it’s since morphed into a celebration for all presidents.

While the Kennedys and Trumps of the world were born to wealthy families with large estates, other presidents had far more ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...

"Abraham Lincoln had friends and relatives in California, including Santa Cruz," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "A 13-year-old Charles H. Lincoln came to California from Maine in 1852 for the Gold ...

PERRY TWP. – The Perry History Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Perry Police Department lower level, 622 Genoa Ave. SW.

Chris Noel is the mayor of Denali Borough and lives in the forested neighborhood of McKinley Village, which sometimes shows up as Denali Park on online maps. He’s very accustomed to the dual identity ...