Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...
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Why Is Trump So Obsessed With McKinley?
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 ...
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Robert Merry, historian: ‘Trump doesn’t recognize McKinley’s remarkable turnaround with regard to his views on tariffs’
The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...
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Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
It took 40 years to rename Denali from the name established in ... Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – objected over many years to ...