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

In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, Trump said William McKinley — who was president from 1897 to 1901, and before that an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...