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 ...

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 ...

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at ...

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 – ...

On March 11th, 1942, while performing zigzag patterns while under sail in an effort to avoid any torpedo launches from Japanese submarines thought to be in the area, the steamship Mount McKinley ran ...