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

Our 25th president loved tariffs, and oversaw an expansion of U.S. territory around the globe. But William McKinley is best ...

signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley, an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska. He said he planned ...

Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to this ...

A few Mount McKinley fans who responded to our question were under the impression McKinley was responsible for buying Alaska from Russia. Not so. The purchase was 30 years before McKinley won the ...

in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means “the high one” — the tallest mountain in North ...

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.

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 ...