And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

Never mind President Donald Trump’s announcement just hours after his inauguration that he was restoring the behemoth peak’s previous title of Mount McKinley, in honor of a turn-of-the-century ...

A note on the name of the mountain: From 1917 to 2015, North America’s tallest mountain was officially named Mount McKinley. But over that century, Alaskans, climbers, and many others still ...

The search giant officially updated its maps and search engine Saturday reverting Denali back to its original name — Mount McKinley. President Trump ordered the renaming of Denali and the Gulf ...

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at ...

but none of that changes the fact that Jim Lieb is absolutely correct — no one knows how most Alaskans feel about Mount McKinley. 1 ...

Following President Donald Trump's move to change the name of the tallest mountain in North America to Mount McKinley, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has once again introduced a measure to ...

In his Inaugural Address last month, President Trump said he was changing the name back to Mount McKinley, the mountain’s official moniker during the 20th Century and into the 21st. “And we ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.

to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Reader support makes our work possible. Donate today to keep our site free. Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word ...