McKinley, who was later elected president and assassinated in 1901, had no direct connection to Alaska. Despite the official ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

Another gold prospector named William Dickey came up with the name “Mount McKinley,” after the then-president-elect, William McKinley. In an account of his summer in Alaska published in a New ...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he floated years ago that at that time saw strong pushback ...

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 ...

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to rename North America's tallest peak, known as Denali in Alaska, after President William McKinley, one ...

to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs," Trump announced earlier in his inauguration speech. The change is opposed by both of Alaska's Republican senators, as well as by many ...

siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917. Sign up here. "They took his name off Mount McKinley," Trump ...

to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.” A few hours later he signed an executive order doing just that. Alaska Native leaders, as well as state politicians, object that the ...

Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he'd floated years ago that at that time saw strong pushback from state political leaders. Trump, who took office for a second time Monday ...