The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Five minutes after squeezing into the Cessna 206 with three other giddy passengers, the blue-and-white six-seater zipped ...

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It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

With a country this big, it’s no surprise you can find many beautiful mountains in the United States. Some of the most ...

From military bases to wildlife refuges, a president who specializes in branding is renaming things to make a point.

As a clergy person who has served congregations in the Black and of-color communities in Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC ...

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 ...

Hours later, he signed an executive order overturning an Obama administration directive and renaming America’s tallest peak ...