William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?

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Feb. 17 is Presidents Day. A friend and I were talking about presidents when he said that so many of them were senators, representatives or governors and wondered if any ...

He said: "There it is! Pursuant to the authority of the Secretary of Defense, title 10 United States Code section 113, I direct the Army to change the name of Fort Liberty, North Carolina to Fort ...

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

The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Trump’s ...

Reuters has reported that transgender service members and advocates have prepared for months for Trump's executive order. The military has about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, Department of ...

In his 2025 inaugural address, Donald Trump compared himself to former President William McKinley boasting that he, like McKinley, would make “our country very rich through tariffs.” ...

ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: In the late 19th century, William McKinley was a congressman from Ohio. DOUGLAS IRWIN: And he ushered through a tariff bill in 1890. KHALID: That's Douglas Irwin. He's an ...

William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician ... Harding, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley and William Howard Taft. But some say there should ...

Growing up in the iron-producing region of eastern Ohio in the 1840s, future president William McKinley would hear his father complain that foreign competition lowered wages and made honest men ...