Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by then-Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, citing a 1947 law ...

Mount McKinley was named in honor of the former president before he had been elected to office, according to Britannica, with a gold prospector renaming the peak over the then-presidential candidate.

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge America's history of colonialism and restore Indigenous place names," says ...

to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Denali is a Koyukon Athabaskan word that means ...

Rising tall against the endless tundra and boreal forests below, the highest peak in North America dominates the central Alaska landscape. Soaring 20,310 feet above the earth, the mountain, known ...

The name is no longer Denali. The tallest mountain in the United States has been officially reverted to Mount McKinley, the U ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley. "A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf ...

The executive order indicated the return of Mount McKinley is of special importance to Trump, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet making it the tallest peak in North America. The federal ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...