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 ...

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States. Universal Images Group via Getty Images file McKinley, who was born in Ohio, had no actual connection with the mountain or Alaska.

In Denali’s shadow, little love for again calling the mount McKinley. President Trump’s executive order to rename the Alaska peak — North America’s highest — perplexes and worries many ...

President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley. It’s the latest chapter in a long ...

Denali: Why is Donald Trump ... Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it after ...

In 1980, the park’s name was changed to Denali National Park and Preserve, but the mountain remained McKinley. Over a span of decades, Alaska’s congressional delegation repeatedly introduced ...

In 1896, as news spread that Mr. McKinley had won his first term, a prospector exploring the mountain range declared that the tallest peak should be named in honor of the new president — a ...

She added that when the federal government adopted Denali as the official naming in 2015, there was "confusion among ...

The mountain was named after William McKinley when a prospector walked out of the Alaska wilderness in 1896, and the first news he heard was that the Republican had been nominated for president.

FILE – Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller administers the oath of office to President-elect William McKinley during his inauguration in Washington, March 4, 1897, as outgoing President Grover ...

W hen 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 ...