McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end. In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed ...

In May 1752 the French minister of the navy, Antoine de Rouillé, wrote to the governor of Saint-Domingue about the new problem of slaves in France. Slaves were “multiplying every day, more and more, ...