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 ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

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

From military bases to wildlife refuges, a president who specializes in branding is renaming things to make a point.

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