Bibliography of William McKinley


This bibliography of William McKinley is a comprehensive list of written and published works about or by William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States.

Domestic issues and politics

  • Armstrong, William H. Major McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War
  • Faulkner, Harold U. Politics, Reform, and Expansion, 1890–1900
  • Glad, Paul W. McKinley, Bryan, and the People
  • Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888–1896
  • Jones, Stanley L. The Presidential Election of 1896
  • Josephson, Matthew. The Politicos: 1865–1896
  • Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877–1896
  • Rhodes, James Ford. The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897–1909
  • Saldin, Robert P. "William McKinley and the Rhetorical Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly 41#1 pp. 119–34,
  • Skrabec, Quentin R. William McKinley, apostle of protectionism.
  • Williams, R. Hal. Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s.

Foreign policy

  • Dobson, John M. Reticient Expansionism: The Foreign Policy of William McKinley..
  • Fry Joseph A. "William McKinley and the Coming of the Spanish–American War: A Study of the Besmirching and Redemption of an Historical Image," Diplomatic History 3 : 77–97
  • Gould, Lewis L. The Spanish–American War and President McKinley
  • Hamilton, Richard. President McKinley, War, and Empire.
  • Harrington, Fred H. "The Anti-Imperialist Movement in the United States, 1898–1900," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 211–30
  • Holbo, Paul S. "Presidential Leadership in Foreign Affairs: William McKinley and the Turpie-Foraker Amendment," The American Historical Review 1967 72 : 1321–35.
  • May, Ernest. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power
  • Offner, John L. "McKinley and the Spanish–American War," Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 34#1 pp 50+.
  • Offner, John L. An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain over Cuba, 1895–1898
  • Paterson. Thomas G. "United States Intervention in Cuba, 1898: Interpretations of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War," The History Teacher, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 341–61
  • Trask, David. The War with Spain in 1898..

Speeches and manuscripts

  • McKinley, William. Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley: from his election to Congress to the present time
  • McKinley, William. Abraham Lincoln. An Address by William McKinley of Ohio. Before the Marquette Club. Chicago. February 12, 1896
  • McKinley, William. Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley: from March 1, 1897, to May 30, 1900
  • McKinley, William. ''The Tariff; a Review of the Tariff Legislation of the United States from 1812 to 1896''