The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, to the return of Forts Bragg and Benning and the newly re-renamed Mount ...

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 ...

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 – ...

A note on the name of the mountain: From 1917 to 2015, North America’s tallest mountain was officially named Mount McKinley ... seemed she wasn’t going to Alaska at all this summer.

There have been many name changes in the last few years, before the current dust-up. Alaska’s Mt. McKinley was changed ... Hal Moore, one of the most decorated officers of the Vietnam war.

His decision to restore the name of Mount McKinley, after its name was changed to Denali in 2015, prompted protests from Republicans as well as Democrats in Alaska. Denali is the native Athabascans’ ...

Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs,” President Trump ...

Alaska’s Mount Spurr, a volcano about 80 miles away from the state’s largest city, will “likely” erupt in the coming weeks or months for the first time in over 30 years, according to ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has detected heightened volcanic gas emissions at Mount Spurr, indicating a possible eruption in the coming weeks or months. The volcano’s Crater Peak vent last ...

Elevated levels of volcanic gas and earthquakes have been recorded at the site. Alaska's Mount Spurr, an active volcano near the most populated region in the state, is getting even closer to an ...

Alaska's Mount Spurr, an active volcano near the most populated region in the state, is getting even closer to an eruption, according to volcanologists. Scientists at the Alaska Volcano ...