On the 2024 campaign trail, the president namedropped a historical figure who likely inspired his approach to tariffs: William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States. McKinley ...

The victorious years after the two World Wars? The space race and swagger of the JFK years? For Donald Trump, it might have been 123 years ago – when William McKinley was president.

On September 6, 1899, President William McKinley was shot while on a speaking tour in Buffalo, New York. As McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Temple of Music, a Polish born anarchist named ...

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 ...