The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year o ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

But as a political leader, Trump has a different reason to idolize McKinley: The twice-elected Republican from Ohio realigned U.S. politics and installed the GOP as the dominant party for more than a ...

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, standing, interrogates prosecution attorney William Jennings Bryan, seated at left in bow tie, during what came to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trial ...

The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...

Though I am familiar with the Scopes trial, I was pleased to read “A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes trial, the original fight ...

The subject of racism in State v. Scopes (1925) has been presented by supporters of William Jennings Bryan as being unfair to the three time unsuccessful candidate for president of the United ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...

Trump loves McKinley, as he said in the inauguration speech, because McKinley “made our country very rich through tariffs” ...

One is that the Democratic nominee, William Jennings Bryan, adopted important parts of the Populist platform. The other is that the Populists were terrified that, if they didn’t line up behind ...

The trial might have attracted little attention outside the world of constitutional law were it not for the two famous lawyers who volunteered to help with the case: William Jennings Bryan for the ...

Gougar, who wanted the Legislature to vote on women’s suffrage. 1900: Arthur Sewall, who had been William Jennings Bryan’s running mate in the 1896 presidential campaign, claimed Bryan would ...