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

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

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...

For his first term on the Republican ticket, William McKinley ran on a largely pro-gold platform but reserved some possibility for bimetallism. McKinley won his first term in the greatest electoral ...

In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, Trump said William McKinley — who was president from 1897 to 1901, and before that an influential congressman — “made our country very rich through ...

Campaigning from his front porch in 1896, McKinley emphasized his stance on protectionist tariffs. His opponent, William Jennings Bryan, won the Democratic nomination in large part for his speech ...

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 ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history ... territorial conquest and great-power diplomacy. Since President William McKinley’s once-upon-a-time mediocrity was exceeded only ...