In 2015, President Barack Obama bestowed the Denali name on the ... We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.” ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to return the old name of America’s tallest mountain, nine years after then-President Barack ... William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901. But Obama ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama completed the change to ... A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska.

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama changed the name to Denali ... A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska.