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

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

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...

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 ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to this ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.

In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.

Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...

in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Reader support makes our work possible. Donate today to keep our site free. Denali is a Koyukon ...