On March 4, 1897, William McKinley, Jr. (1843-1901) became the 25th President of the United States of America. Although the United States had avoided becoming embroiled in the Cuban situation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...