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

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

Merry recounts how McKinley started out as a “steadfast protectionist” who believed that high tariff walls were a prerequisite for the rapid growth of the U.S. economy in the decades following ...

The McKinley tariff protection era in the US lasted from 1890 to 1920. A century later, another Republican US president, who has called tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary", seems ...

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high import duties, he won the presidency in 1896 thanks to the influence of ...

And it echoes the policies of the 25th US president, William McKinley, who presided over an aggressive reciprocal tariff regime in the late 19th century. McKinley was president from 1897 until he ...

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high import duties, he won the presidency in 1896 thanks to the influence of ...

He was the congressman representing Ohio at the time, and he successfully pushed for legislation that became the McKinley Tariff of 1890. That put a tariff of more than 70% on imported tinplate.