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

In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs. We had a president, you ...

It was Nov. 3, 1896, and the former Ohio Governor was on his way to becoming America’s 25th president. The 53-year-old ...

It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...

Donald Trump has cited the Gilded Age era as an inspiration – but experts say it was rife with government and business ...

The last time “reciprocity” was used to refer to the opposite process of raising tariffs was in 1890, under the Tariff Act, often just called the McKinley Tariff. It is this era Trump harked ...

The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, which proposed increasing average tariffs on imports into the US from 38% to 50%, was under his chairmanship. The idea was to give fledgling industries temporary ...

Consider one of Trump’s personal heroes, William McKinley, and the consequences of the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890. It was signed into law during America’s so-called “Gilded Age.” ...