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John Hay was President Lincoln's personal secretary, a position that began nearly five decades of public service. A diplomat who served multiple Administrations from Lincoln to Roosevelt, he was a central figure in defining the U.S. foreign policy that would be the basis of the United States role on the world stage in the twentieth century.This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for...

Summary Three sequences of the funeral ceremonies held for President William McKinley: Sequence 1: McKinley's body lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 1901; views of officers on horseback, the Artillery Band (wearing dark headdresses), a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery and coast artillery, Marine Band (wearing white helmets), battalion of Marines, civilians carrying umbrellas (may be the diplomatic corps), other civilians, guard of honor, pallbearers, and the horsedrawn hearse all turning the corner off what may be Pennsylvania Avenue on their way to the Capitol; camera pans the hearse, as...

The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on the past. In 2001, the primeval Taliban blew up two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan on grounds that their very existence was sacrilegious to Islam. In 2015, ISIS militants entered a museum in Mosul, Iraq, and destroyed ancient, pre-Islamic statues and idols. Their mute crime? These artifacts predated the prophet Muhammad. The West prides itself in...

After years of contentious debate, an act of vandalism and a public vote, President William McKinley has lost his home at the center of Arcata Plaza in Humboldt County.

President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, ending a 40-year battle over what to call the peak that has been known as Mount McKinley. The symbolic gesture comes at the beginning of a three-day trip to Alaska where Obama hopes to build support for his efforts to address climate change during his remaining 16 months in office.

WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, ending a 40-year battle over what to call the peak that has been known as Mount McKinley.

Lawmakers have failed in past attempts to rename North America’s highest mountain, but a new proposal may have a better chance this year under a Republican Congress, according to an aide to an Alaska lawmaker who is resurrecting the effort. U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have introduced a bill to give Mount McKinley its historical Alaska Native name. The Alaska Republicans announced a Senate bill Wednesday to formally call the 20,320-foot mountain by its Athabascan name, Denali, KTUU reported. The bill comes after previous efforts by Murkowski failed. …

It was the greatest coffee run in American history. The Ohio boys had been fighting since morning, trapped in the raging battle of Antietam, in September 1862. Suddenly, a 19-year-old William McKinley appeared, under heavy fire, hauling vats of hot coffee. The men held out tin cups, gulped the brew and started firing again. “It was like putting a new regiment in the fight,” their officer recalled. Three decades later, McKinley ran for president in part on this singular act of caffeinated heroism. At the time, no one found McKinley’s act all that strange. For Union soldiers, and the lucky...

L. Frank Baum‘s classic “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” published amid the economic and political chaos of the 1893 financial panic, has “eerie parallels to today,” according to Loyola University political science professor Michael Genovese. Genovese‘s theory is that Dorothy (representing the Midwestern farmer or “The Everyman”) is swept from home in a tornado (representing the Industrial Revolution); her landing kills the Wicked Witch of the East (bankers and capitalists) who kept the munchkins (the little guys) in bondage. To return home, she travels through the Land of Oz wearing silver slippers (Hollywood later made those slippers ruby-colored) — a...

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Another wave is coming, Washington – and “the ‘ins’ may be thrown out, and the ‘outs’ may be thrown in,” according to Michael Genovese, Loyola University political-science professor. Genovese thinks the economic and political turbulence of the past 12 years are “eerily similar” to the Panic of 1893 and the unsettling election cycles of 1884 to 1896. Both eras feature fantastic wealth created for a privileged few, fiercely competitive and highly partisan elections, an ineffectual and seemingly corrupt government, and an angry, disillusioned electorate. And both have had populist movements – the Progressives of the late 1800s, the Tea Party...

It took less than 24 hours for the political Left to seize upon the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six people on Saturday to blame the political Right for the shooting. Perhaps the most egregious example came from Paul Krugman of the New York Times, who wrote "We don't have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was." (The newspaper that published plagiarized and fabricated accounts of the "D.C. sniper" by affirmative-action hire Jayson Blair in 2003 is still publishing unsubstantiated suppositions without "proof," eh?) "[Giffords'] father says that ‘the...

On this day in 1901, President William McKinley (R-OH) died of a gunshot wound inflicted by an assassin eight days before. As he faded away, he recited the words of a popular hymn: "Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee! E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee. Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, Darkness be over me, my rest a stone. Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God to Thee. There in my Father’s home, safe and at rest, There in my...

A century-old statue of President William McKinley in a historical plaza in Arcata, Calif., has long been a target for pranksters. Vandals have used cheese, condoms and marijuana to abuse the likeness of the 25th president, an Ohio native. Questions over McKinley's legacy, however - an off-and-on debate about his role in starting the Spanish-American War has flared up again - are what really has the town atwitter. The notion came as a surprise to Janet Metzger, librarian at the Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in Canton, where the future president launched his career. "I was just amazed," Metzger...

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In the Shadow of William McKinley By Stephen K. Tootle Mr. Tootle teaches history at the University of Northern Colorado. He is a member of the HNN blog, Rebunk. After four years, the Karl Rove-George W. Bush political team can claim one narrow electoral victory in the presidential election of 2000, a series of domestic policy successes, victory in two major battles in the war on terror, and stunning gains for the Republicans in the 2002 midterm elections. Though it is too soon to assess whether or not Bush will realign American politics in the manner of William McKinley, the...

With the beheading of the 2nd American today, many Americans are wondering if this will ever come to an end. Many seem to just sit back in their chairs as they watch the news in dis-belief, wondering maybe what the future holds for our nation. Some may even feel like this is a new challenge, that we have never seen before. Although this may be the first time we have seen a war of this sort, this is not the first time we have fought terrorism on American soil before. After the French Revolution many terrorists (who called themselves anarchists)...

FR Columnists' Corner Heads I Win, Tails You LoseBy William McKinley Imagine if people cared about coin flips. I mean, cared deeply and passionately about if heads would come up or if tails would come up. Imagine there being heads partisans, and tails partisans, and imagine there being moderates who can prefer heads one time and tails the next, depending on the coin, or the day, or the way the wind blows. And imagine that our fictitious little land does not know that an everyday coin will come up heads half the time, and tails half the time. Now imagine...

FR Columnists' Corner "Games People Play" by William McKinley"If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, Would you believe it? Games people play in the middle of the night" - Alan Parsons Project, "Games People Play" The recent fiasco experienced by the New York Times over the creative writing exploits of Jayson Blair should have served as a warning to journalists to be careful over the information they publish. A news outfit depends upon its credibility, just as surely as our society depends upon news reporting in order for people to make judgments over their own governance. Yet it...

There is no official award or category as Freeper of the Year. However, I would like to nominate William McKinley as Freeper of the Year for his incredible work this past week to expose a terrible lie about President Bush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943260/posts BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD! Besides this incredible work, William McKinley has identified some really vile critters who are probably involved in these lies and other lies. Go to this incredible link of more exposure of the vile/evil ones by William and then other Freepers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943322/posts Since....