President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. See how those policies affected everyday Americans in ...

Long before Roosevelt charged in, McKinley was reshaping trade, war, and empire—quietly turning the U.S. into a global force.

Markets seem convinced that Donald Trump’s tariff deadlines are just an elaborate negotiating decoy - Will ...

The McKinley Tariff, as its now known, imposed a 50% tax on U.S. imports. Historical records indicate McKinley had America’s best interests at heart with this legislation.

Trump has dubbed McKinley the “tariff king.” McKinley referred to himself as “a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.” In 1890, six years before McKinley’s election as president, ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 was one of the highest ever, in competition with lower tariff proposals by Democrats, including the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, passed in 1894, ...

Like the Townshend Acts and Bacon’s Rebellion, tariffs are one of those topics you may vaguely remember from high school ...

Donald Trump has a mystical fixation with tariffs. His pin-up idol is the forgotten champion of 19th century protection, William McKinley. But which McKinley does he mean? The raw congressman from ...

Within two years of the McKinley Tariff’s passage, Canadian agricultural exports to Britain jumped from $3.5 million to $15 million, and produce and animal exports grew from $16 million to $24 ...

When McKinley was the GOP presidential nominee in 1896, America was in the teeth of the Long Depression, characterized by unemployment, stagnant wages, and inflation. Voters had benefited from the ...

The truth about William McKinley, the ‘tariff king’ and Trump’s idol. Chris Isidore, CNN. February 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM. President William McKinley in the White House in 1900.