The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

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McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

Never mind President Donald Trump’s announcement just hours after his inauguration that he was restoring the behemoth peak’s previous title of Mount McKinley, in honor of a turn-of-the-century ...

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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 ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal mountaineering moments. This is Part 2, the story of one of the worst tragedies ever on a ...