President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on his first day in office, a move Democrats have mocked.

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...