Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day ...

Invade Mexico, annex Greenland, reclaim the Panama Canal. Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of American imperial ambition ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...

Two American veterans of World War II who fought to free the Philippines in 1945 are headed back to help mark the 80th ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ago until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan because of McKinley’s love affair with ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

There is an echo of McKinley’s spirit and Roosevelt’s strategy in the early Trump White House. For a president who said that ...

William McKinley and Donald Trump have a few things in common. Both were president of the U.S. Both were the targets of ...

An America-First foreign policy, properly understood, is one that eschews imperial conquests. Reed knew this intuitively but ...

This kind of whiplash foreign policy isn’t new,” one historian said. “Many presidents have changed course on foreign policy — ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...