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

As the nation entered the industrial age during a time of economic depression, William McKinley felt protective tariffs were the key to a bright financial future — and voters agreed with him. It was ...

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a ...

That was a century characterized by Europe’s global preeminence, Britain’s naval superiority and financial dominance, and a stabilizing equilibrium of power on the European continent.

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

Though, just as the McKinley Tariff hit Australian wool exports in the 1890s, the Trump tariff threatens our beef exporters.

President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the last ...

Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an ...